Is having ads on your site worth the extra resources?

[MarioMaster]

I think it depends on your needs. I've never run a website before, but I've been around at x10Hosting for a while. I think you should start out on the ad-free plan then convert or switch to x10's paid hosting plans once you need more space, etc.

What are your thoughts?

[bookworm99]

Well, if you site has high enough traffic, I suppose it would be - but you need to be careful. I never click ads, but if it were a matter of keeping my favorite site up, I mgiht be persuaded to slam my mouse on one or two of 'em in order to keep the site alive. If it's just some guy to make money, I won't ever, because it's not my job to support you (now, I may also click if politely asked to support the site, but probably not and only if it has information I need).

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

Personally, I woudl never put ads on my site.

[cheesydud]

I wouldn't ever put advertisements on my site as it is, but it depends on what kind of site for me.

If the site was like a public resource, I would probably put ads on it. But if it were a personal blog, never. If it were a community forum or site, probably not.

If you're trading ad clicks for bandwidth, you have to see if the ratio of money to bandwidth money is decent.

If you get the text-ad plan, then it's not too bad, since you can place the ad anywhere on your pages as long as it is there.

[John Klyne]

Having ads on your site....I try to avoid putting up ads on my site. I believe it does take more bandwidth, and (since there are no ads to make money off of, paying for the bandwidth out of your own pocket is a hassle)....

I only leave ads up, If it promotes another site I have, and if I am trying to make money selling or introducing my own products on one of my other sites.

Never put text ads before....or text ads that change to things your site has nothing to do with.

Overall in my opinion, if the ads belong to my other sites....it is worth it, if the ads don't then I would try to avoid it at all times.

[Scott]

I don't think so...

[John Klyne]

I would definately prefer ad-free, because its hassle free (no needing to worry about suspensions) but also it sucks because its stripped of features. The ad enhanced comes with more features, but you have to put ads on every page, and the server gets filled.
What I say: ad enhanced

It is not that hard to put an ad on every page....I think it takes typically 1 file that you have to edit to have an ad displayed on basically all of your pages on a particular site.

That is why I would choose ad enhanced it gives better features thanks to the people who upgraded their account. Thankyou to all of those paying for their account.

Thankyou everyone that helped and is working on the x10hosting site and it's wonderful features.

[Smith6612]

Well, the question comes down to be if you really do need the ads or not along with the extra resources. Personally myself, I'm well within the resources of my account so I don't have any need for them. Should my site start to get too big/busy for my account type, I'll throw ads on or upgrade to paid.

[interwebpirate]

only recently did i start putting ads on my websites to try to generate some kind of revenue to at least pay for the domain name so that the site can be self sufficient financially.. not sure if its paying off though, a site looks so much nicer without ads plastered all over it.

as for if its worth the extra resources; i would say it is if you have a decent sized users that frequent your site. if not, it's not really worth it in my opinion.

[callumacrae]

I have ads on my site. I got payed by google just at the right time :D I would usually only get £50 while this time I got £70.

Anyway, back on topic...

I get about $100 every six months from the ads on my site. Usually the ads are quite small, hard to notice, and if there are any ads that flash too much I block them.

I would prefer the ad free plan on x10, as I don't use all my resources anyway.

~Callum