Comments on: Web hosting idea: Ads on over-drawn accounts

By: Sheri Bigelow

Sheri Bigelow — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:39:42 +0000

Expanding on your idea, what if the hosting company wanted to add other advertising such as AdWords? It could provide an even higher incentive for the hosting company if they could monetize on top of “good will” advertisements on maxed out accounts. However, some clients might scoff at the idea of the host making an extra few bucks based on their good fortune. Here’s an idea though, PART of the extra proceeds could be applied to the account, and when enough $$ was obtained, the site is reinstated despite the overage. I wonder how many sites and how much outage time logged in a given month for a host like bluehost.

By: Connor

Connor — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:16:49 +0000

Oops.

I didn’t see your example. I think because of the subtle gray background, I confused it for the box below it and thought it was metadata stuff.

I actually like your example. I thought you were proposing showing the ad and nothing else, thus letting the hosting company take advantage. But I think the short ad plus redirect would be a great future, and good karma for both parties.

By: Connor

Connor — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:58:52 +0000

Proposed ad:

“Our hosting plans are so crappy that we had to shut down the site you were trying to visit.

By: danithew

danithew — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:33:01 +0000

That is a brilliant idea. The person still gets hosting in exchange for brief advertising – which demonstrates the professional goodwill of the host.

By: Christer Edwards

Christer Edwards — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:09:34 +0000

That would be a good idea. I don’t know why a host would simply cut you off though, why not simply add to the bill for additional bandwidth?

Caching your site can go a long way though. I’ve been to the front page of Digg twice in the last month (and del.icio.us) and I’m hosting from home! keeps my server running like a champ (for my wordpress sites).

By: Goozbach

Goozbach — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:21:48 +0000

What a great idea. Now to figure a way of implementing it.

By: Pete Abilla

Pete Abilla — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:09:53 +0000

That’s an excellent idea.