News thread response 6/29/09

[Corey]

Regarding news post:
http://forums.x10hosting.com/news-an...6-29-09-a.html

[garrettroyce]

Wow, sounds great!

Nice rant, by the way, you've got my support

[mukuld]

you are doing a great job providing us with free hosting. my account was suspended but from yesterday everything is all riight. my website is working fine...

the blog will be fine addition. i am looking forward to other upgrades too. keep it up guys.

[fguy64]

Just because you have some linux or system admin experience does not give you insight on how x10 runs. Unless you are part of the admin team you have no idea how the backend works or what is involved in moving just a single account between servers. It's not just copying files.

if you're not one of us, you have no idea what you're talking about. uh huh.

I've stated this before and I'll say it again, honestly if you have such an issue with our free hosting you're welcome to leave or upgrade to paid hosting where these issues don't exist.

if you don't like it, lump it. Kind of makes me wonder why x10 bothers with free hosting in the first place. It's a marketing ploy of course. Anyways, good luck, I'm sure you're trying.

[garrettroyce]

Seems like a pretty bad marketing ploy

I'd hate to see how the books look at the end of the month for free hosting with the new servers, support calls to CPanel and R1Soft, datacenter rental, 800 number, advertising, and VBulletin. I really wonder how any free host stays in business. I mean, if geocities went down, how is it even possible?

Well, just my two cents. Life's pretty good on paid, so I guess I couldn't possibly complain ;)

[Corey]

if you're not one of us, you have no idea what you're talking about. uh huh.




if you don't like it, lump it. Kind of makes me wonder why x10 bothers with free hosting in the first place. It's a marketing ploy of course. Anyways, good luck, I'm sure you're trying.

I've had enough of your attitude, I think you missed the part of my post that says leave if you don't like it. If you continue to be rude you'll be banned.

-Corey

[Livewire]

Seems like a pretty bad marketing ploy

I'd hate to see how the books look at the end of the month for free hosting with the new servers, support calls to CPanel and R1Soft, datacenter rental, 800 number, advertising, and VBulletin. I really wonder how any free host stays in business. I mean, if geocities went down, how is it even possible?

Well, just my two cents. Life's pretty good on paid, so I guess I couldn't possibly complain ;)

Agreed, specially on the last part.

But from what I gathered in the PAST, free was barely breaking even with the ads. Paid I imagine is not only supporting itself, but with plenty extra - assuming a server costs $200, it'd take 29 accounts to earn 1.55 over the server costs.


Dunno even what it'd take if ads were on EVERY users account, but there's 30,000 (according to Corey's news post), and most ad services seem to take quite a few views jsut to get to $0.10, and I have some doubts all 30,000 accounts would generate even that in a month.


Edit: Clarification, for paid by plenty extra I mean more than enough to cover the server and make it worthwhile to put the effort in on x10's part.

[dudecat]

Thanks for the update. I wasn't going to post but the negative post was uncalled for and doesn't add anything of value. So here's my 2 cents.

I picked x10hosting free hosting for many reasons - the years in existence, the software languages (my development background is mostly with Microsoft products), the web space allotment, the top rating from http://www.free-webhosts.com/webhosting-01.php, no ads are required, etc..

I am looking forward to the proposed changes such as the resource usage stats which will be very helpful and the improvement in navigation and flow of information on the site.

It seems like there are a lot of great changes coming and I think it is great that you are willing to listen to and implement members suggestions (thread Re: Latest update news thread response: 6/22/09 asking people to read the news section before submitting a ticket, thread Suggestions for a more effective forum).

[jmcgowan]

Thank you for the update, and thank you to all the admins for all the hard work that's been put in to this service. To be honest, I joined recently enough that my site's been broken longer than it's been fixed, and I'm still impressed with the service here, because I can see from the forums just how much work is going on behind the scenes. If / when I make the move to paid hosting, I'm sure I'll be impressed there as well.

[changc]

Kudos to you for your continued support and work.