Losing/Making money

[klarth]

Currently, even though I provide paid services all I get are people asking for the free hosting. lol...figures. I don't even have 1 paid member out of the 33 I host. Google Adsense is a good source, but what do you do when none of your members click it? How do you earn money to pay for it all? I tried banner codes but my members are confused about Google policy about modifying the code. How do some hosts provide ad-free hosting? It boggles the mind. :(

[gex6]

They get really cheap hosting, and they don't offer ftp, just a file browser, so users have to visit their site to upload, this way they get lots of traffic on their site.

Then they put the banners on their main site, instead of the users' sites :-p.

Usually this requires alot of investment to set up the correct infrastructure though...

[klarth]

oh, I see...but I give my users cPanel. :P

[gex6]

eh... no idea then :).

[klarth]

lol Thanks anyways. :P

[AfterShock]

are you able to put google ads in cpanel?

[LP-Trel]

Sell advertising to hosting companies or look for a CPM provider.

Maybe Google just isn't for you. :)

[AfterShock]

I reccommend Clicksor

[danker]

I reccommend Clicksor

I've used Clicksor on my blog. I had many clicks and didn't even make a dollar. And trust me, my blog gets thousands of hits. So I don't really use Clicksor anymore because sometimes it wasn't functioning properly.

I just opened a free & paid web hosting company a couple days ago. I took months to build. But usually, web hosting owners give out free web hosting so it's like a preview of the paid plans. A good idea is to put Google Adsense ads or something in the cPanel control panel. Just go to WHM and click Modify cPanel/WHM News and add the code :D

[AfterShock]

Yea but wont the paid customers see that too? At my hosting i had a 30-day trial account.

[danker]

Oh yeah, good point. But I'm sure if you go to the forums at cPanel.net, somebody could probably help.

[klarth]

Oh yeah, that's a good idea. Thanks!

[Xoopiter-Jeff]

I woulden't worry if you had 1 paid account out of the 33 you host your doing good. I have less then 50 paid accounts out of the 3000+ that I host. People just like the free stuff and some are happy enough to upgrade and lose the ads.

Jeff

[andybuk23]

I think Jeff answers your question, 33 free sites is not enough, 3333 is a good start...out of 3333 75% of them wont even use the space, the rest will stick a few pages up and never come back then a small handful will have busy active sites, out of all of those signups some of them will pay for addons or paid monthly hosting, but you need to have the services there for them to take..not just one upgrade package, you need more, domains, email etc but remember they started with free hosting they aint gonna be wanting to pay more than $5 a month, too many paid hosts do it at that price. If you really want to make money from it you need to look at other ways to make the money, you cannot rely on getting the paid members, to get the numbers you need you would have to signup tens of thousands of free members which you wouldnt support via google ads..look at other sources...when they signup, if you can make money from each signup, make money every time they log in to members area (mini popup) make money from sending newsletters to them (not spam) add all these together x by thousands of members it all mounts up. YOu must have more than one income source.

[djbob]

oh, I see...but I give my users cPanel. :P
Ooh ooh you use CPanel and have ads? How do you place them? You don't have a dedic. server, do you?