Efil
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Understanding Free Web Hosting Philosophy
The Missing Manual
The internet is addicting. And so is free web hosting. There is value and pleasure in every addiction, since one wouldn't become addicted to it if there's nothing desirable about it in the first place. And just like any other forms of addiction there are sacrifices and miseries involved in the internet and web hosting addiction too. Similarly, while there are victims of such addictions, there are pushers who profit and earn a living out of it. Now, where do you think you belong? Are you a trafficker, pusher, manufacturer, victim, or are you simply a web hosting addict?
Meet the Hostlord
I could hardly believe that a father would tell his child, "Son, this vast free web space is what you are going to inherit from me. Plow it with account management tools and oversell." My most common prediction is that similar to a father who knows the perils and difficulties farming a wasteland, he would be willing enough to accord that his child should rather pursue an engineering job or office job in the city.
Free web hosting is a wasteland in the internet web hosting industry. No one can expect millions of profit that can be squeezed from it. There could be wild plants growing that bear non-uniformed fruits, enough to fill your little heart with sympathy and desire, but it's a wasteland after all. You need to buy a tractor to cultivate it and you should keep watch every minute for wild animals (phishers and spammers) lurking from all over the corners ready and waiting for an opportunity to coax, steal, or destroy your minimal crop that you have grown with your saved money, sleepless nights, time, effort, sweat, tears and even blood.
Web Host Addiction
So most probably, you started as an individual who learned how to surf the web and finally have decided to create a website of your own. You browsed the internet for servers that can give you a reasonable amount of free space to host your project, then as you learned and discovered more about web hosting eventually you also realized that you can do it your own - start a free web hosting business that (according to your wild vision) could possibly give you mountains of profits when handled wisely.
From there commenced your journey into the wasteland and the dream of making a fortune at stroke. It's very easy. You buy yourself a reseller account for a reasonable price and there you are, a hostlord of your own. This power and luxury to offer resources to others for free makes you feel wanted, noble and exalted. You are a hero with a legacy. Great!
Everybody dream of becoming a hero and in one way or another dream of harvesting a fortune without worrying about the hard work and the nitty-gritty that would make it a possibility. Now you have both, you have the power and you can be rich! You are now a captain of the server you own, you have the command. "Onward, the light brigade! All in the Valley of Death. Rode the six hundred."
Web Hosting Reality
But then, sooner or later you will realize that even though you have the power and the command to create, modify, suspend and terminate an account, something is sure to be missing and something is surely misunderstood. You do not have the army who will obey your command and protect your camp unto the Valley of Death. But you do have an army of users who keep on complaining to you about anything and everything while demanding more of your free resources in exchange for their robotic spam posts. You do not have visitors who should be boosting your google adsense clicks and impressions. But you do have users who are never willing to click your ads just like how they click their own ads that are scattered all over the corners of their websites. And the hoodlums...oh! the hoodlums, they are always there in disguise to try to take advantage of your service for their crimes.
Free web hosting is indeed a great fun and is too much exciting that you will even become addicted to it, keeping you staring at the your PC monitor for a long period of time, refreshing the browser every few seconds to see if there's a new post in the forum, skipping meals, missed assignments and whatnots. But as time goes by when you begin to realize the net worth of it, when you started to feel the burden of its financial, physical and psychological stress, it will be the time when you will begin to ponder what you have missed, where is the money, and why the hell are you so tired and lonely. You will start to raise every sort of questions that have only one answer - it's a wasteland.
There's no fortune in free web hosting unless you succeeded in selling it into a fool. You don't have to argue with me about that. If you believe I am wrong, don't say a single word, just show me the money.
Web Hosting Chain of Reactions
Despite of it, the free web hosting industry will continue to become greeny for the rest of the days until google launch its first free web server bundled in a space shuttle into the outer space. As the old grass of free web hosts wear out and die, new grass of wannabies will try out and learn the reality of the wasteland. The new web host will try to get as many first batch of costumers as desired by offering superfantastic amount of web space and bandwidth. Spammers and abusive users will easily chomp the bait, too many potential wannabies would be amazed, think they can do it too and so will try to beat the offer. The former will realize that the catch are almost unprofitable dummy accounts; fancy dreams will fade away and harsh reality will start to loom. The former dies and the later starts a new challenge. It's a chain of reactions that will not end at least so easily.
It therefore boils down into a single impressive super-supposition; that the free web hosting industry is kept running by two superimposed entities: the free web hosts who have an upright philosophy, and the free web hosts who are simply some sort of web hosting addicts.
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Questions, suggestions and criticisms are always welcome. I'm looking forward to a fruitful discussions with you all.
Regards,
Efil Leiv
The Water Seven Community
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The Missing Manual
The internet is addicting. And so is free web hosting. There is value and pleasure in every addiction, since one wouldn't become addicted to it if there's nothing desirable about it in the first place. And just like any other forms of addiction there are sacrifices and miseries involved in the internet and web hosting addiction too. Similarly, while there are victims of such addictions, there are pushers who profit and earn a living out of it. Now, where do you think you belong? Are you a trafficker, pusher, manufacturer, victim, or are you simply a web hosting addict?
Meet the Hostlord
I could hardly believe that a father would tell his child, "Son, this vast free web space is what you are going to inherit from me. Plow it with account management tools and oversell." My most common prediction is that similar to a father who knows the perils and difficulties farming a wasteland, he would be willing enough to accord that his child should rather pursue an engineering job or office job in the city.
Free web hosting is a wasteland in the internet web hosting industry. No one can expect millions of profit that can be squeezed from it. There could be wild plants growing that bear non-uniformed fruits, enough to fill your little heart with sympathy and desire, but it's a wasteland after all. You need to buy a tractor to cultivate it and you should keep watch every minute for wild animals (phishers and spammers) lurking from all over the corners ready and waiting for an opportunity to coax, steal, or destroy your minimal crop that you have grown with your saved money, sleepless nights, time, effort, sweat, tears and even blood.
Web Host Addiction
So most probably, you started as an individual who learned how to surf the web and finally have decided to create a website of your own. You browsed the internet for servers that can give you a reasonable amount of free space to host your project, then as you learned and discovered more about web hosting eventually you also realized that you can do it your own - start a free web hosting business that (according to your wild vision) could possibly give you mountains of profits when handled wisely.
From there commenced your journey into the wasteland and the dream of making a fortune at stroke. It's very easy. You buy yourself a reseller account for a reasonable price and there you are, a hostlord of your own. This power and luxury to offer resources to others for free makes you feel wanted, noble and exalted. You are a hero with a legacy. Great!
Everybody dream of becoming a hero and in one way or another dream of harvesting a fortune without worrying about the hard work and the nitty-gritty that would make it a possibility. Now you have both, you have the power and you can be rich! You are now a captain of the server you own, you have the command. "Onward, the light brigade! All in the Valley of Death. Rode the six hundred."
Web Hosting Reality
But then, sooner or later you will realize that even though you have the power and the command to create, modify, suspend and terminate an account, something is sure to be missing and something is surely misunderstood. You do not have the army who will obey your command and protect your camp unto the Valley of Death. But you do have an army of users who keep on complaining to you about anything and everything while demanding more of your free resources in exchange for their robotic spam posts. You do not have visitors who should be boosting your google adsense clicks and impressions. But you do have users who are never willing to click your ads just like how they click their own ads that are scattered all over the corners of their websites. And the hoodlums...oh! the hoodlums, they are always there in disguise to try to take advantage of your service for their crimes.
Free web hosting is indeed a great fun and is too much exciting that you will even become addicted to it, keeping you staring at the your PC monitor for a long period of time, refreshing the browser every few seconds to see if there's a new post in the forum, skipping meals, missed assignments and whatnots. But as time goes by when you begin to realize the net worth of it, when you started to feel the burden of its financial, physical and psychological stress, it will be the time when you will begin to ponder what you have missed, where is the money, and why the hell are you so tired and lonely. You will start to raise every sort of questions that have only one answer - it's a wasteland.
There's no fortune in free web hosting unless you succeeded in selling it into a fool. You don't have to argue with me about that. If you believe I am wrong, don't say a single word, just show me the money.
Web Hosting Chain of Reactions
Despite of it, the free web hosting industry will continue to become greeny for the rest of the days until google launch its first free web server bundled in a space shuttle into the outer space. As the old grass of free web hosts wear out and die, new grass of wannabies will try out and learn the reality of the wasteland. The new web host will try to get as many first batch of costumers as desired by offering superfantastic amount of web space and bandwidth. Spammers and abusive users will easily chomp the bait, too many potential wannabies would be amazed, think they can do it too and so will try to beat the offer. The former will realize that the catch are almost unprofitable dummy accounts; fancy dreams will fade away and harsh reality will start to loom. The former dies and the later starts a new challenge. It's a chain of reactions that will not end at least so easily.
It therefore boils down into a single impressive super-supposition; that the free web hosting industry is kept running by two superimposed entities: the free web hosts who have an upright philosophy, and the free web hosts who are simply some sort of web hosting addicts.
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Questions, suggestions and criticisms are always welcome. I'm looking forward to a fruitful discussions with you all.
Regards,
Efil Leiv
The Water Seven Community
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). It's only an effort to grasp about the truths that lies behind (no pun intended), and not to belittle anything that remains valuable and worthwhile. And may I say, it's not merely a personal opinion, but a conclusion based on observed, reported, and experienced facts within a considerable span of time.
