I usually get idea’s for my posts from adult webmaster boards I frequent. That’s were this one came from.

I guess you just can’t stop free hosting. Folks don’t realize, but it snuck in through the back door once again.

Years ago, there were services that hosted adult content for free. Some might remember the likes of Porncity and others I can’t remember right now, it’s been awhile.

It was a hell of a deal, you could host all your adult pictures movies and sites for free, no cost. Well the cost of having their ads on your pages, stealing the prime real estate on your pages. Which in reality was a much higher cost than hosting, but the herd followed.

It didn’t take long to realize, free hosts sucked. For one, all the ads, second many free hosting services did not play nice. Some would sneak in 404 errors when there was none, 404 pages with of course, their ads. Or redirects when their was no need. All this causing far to many problems for directories and link lists who ended up with far too many bad, dead or redirected links.

The biggest problem with the free host model is that it left out accountability. When your actually paying out your hard earned dollars you tend to take your business seriously. with free hosting there is little incentive to keep up your business, you had nothing to lose.

Sure webmasters who put up the cash disappear as well, but when the money is on the table, it’s usually a different mind set to begin with.

But alas…

Even with all it’s inherent problems, free hosting is back, now disguised as free blog hosting. Guess they must have some new tricks up their sleeves, ones we can’t see, to make it all better?

It’s no better and no different. It’s still free hosting and it will still be a problem.

It’s even more of a problem today because of all the software development and high speed internet access. Now days you can purchase software to automate the process or building and updating blogs. Basically churning out millions of bytes of crap.

Who’s losing out?

The poor guy trying to do it right by creating content by hand, real and unique content. He loses out because he doesn’t mass produce. Since he doesn’t mass produce he doesn’t have hundreds of listings that clog up the directories with useless garbage, garbage the search engines don’t even want because they know better. Yet blog directories seem to list any ole crap, day in and day out.

Sad it’s come to this where the crap rises to the top. It should be the other way around.

It comes down to this…

If you can’t come up with $20 a month for hosting and $10 a year for a domain name, you don’t need to deserve to be in this business. Your not taking the business serious enough, so why should any one take you seriously. That is unless you want to do blogs.

One use to be able to say, you’ll do much better with your own hosting, but it’s not exactly true right now.

It will be again… mark my words. It will come. Let’s just hope it will be sooner than later.