GordonH
New Member
After five years out of the free hosting market I am thinking about going back into it.
My calculations are that with a minimal number of domain sales and upgrades to paid hosting a free service could pay for itself while adding useful economies of scale in some areas.
The problem is that looking at whats being offered it doesn't match what I think is economically viable.
For example, the most I think we could provide with any long term stability is 50MB of space with 5GB per month. PHP would need to be run in safe mode to prevent abuse. We could not allow SMTP and each site would need to have a domain name to prevent bandwidth abuse via mod_username. We would not provide any technical support as the servers would be kept functioning correctly so anything else would be web authoring related.
So if I went to the (considerable) trouble of setting it up would it just crash and burn or does everyone want 5GB of disk space and unlimited bandwidth?
My calculations are that with a minimal number of domain sales and upgrades to paid hosting a free service could pay for itself while adding useful economies of scale in some areas.
The problem is that looking at whats being offered it doesn't match what I think is economically viable.
For example, the most I think we could provide with any long term stability is 50MB of space with 5GB per month. PHP would need to be run in safe mode to prevent abuse. We could not allow SMTP and each site would need to have a domain name to prevent bandwidth abuse via mod_username. We would not provide any technical support as the servers would be kept functioning correctly so anything else would be web authoring related.
So if I went to the (considerable) trouble of setting it up would it just crash and burn or does everyone want 5GB of disk space and unlimited bandwidth?
