This is the latest article in my collection of articles aimed at new webmasters from my Adult Webmastering 101 blog that can be found in the resource section of the Max Cash affiliate area.
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In my role as affiliate support for Max Cash, I have daily conversations with new adult webmasters. On most of those days I will have at least one of them talk to be about how anxious they are about getting into the industry but when they show me what they have been working on it is on a free host.
Now, it is true that a lot of us that have been in the industry for a long time started with using free hosts but those were very different times. Bandwith was greatly expensive in comparison to today and domains cost many of us $70 to register with the required two year registration. These days you can register seven or more domains for that amount of money.
However, over the years most of us learned that with all the things that free hosting gave us the one thing we didn't have was control. I am sure there are many that can tell you stories of working hard on a site on a free host and then waking up one morning to finding it had vanished or that suddenly most of the page was a header and footer full of somebody else's banners. Of course, that hosting space wasn't yours and you had no control and no real justification for complaining.
Just about every business has startup costs and in today's market if you are a new webmaster that is serious about making money in this industry it is important to take control of your own budding empire. You want to always be the one that has the say over what is happening on your pages and while I am not saying anything against current free hosts you just don't have that control unless you are the one paying the bills.
So, grab yourself a domain and some basic hosting if that is all you can afford to start out with (I am sure there are plenty people here that will be willing to help you with hosting offers) and start as you mean to continue in this industry.
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In my role as affiliate support for Max Cash, I have daily conversations with new adult webmasters. On most of those days I will have at least one of them talk to be about how anxious they are about getting into the industry but when they show me what they have been working on it is on a free host.
Now, it is true that a lot of us that have been in the industry for a long time started with using free hosts but those were very different times. Bandwith was greatly expensive in comparison to today and domains cost many of us $70 to register with the required two year registration. These days you can register seven or more domains for that amount of money.
However, over the years most of us learned that with all the things that free hosting gave us the one thing we didn't have was control. I am sure there are many that can tell you stories of working hard on a site on a free host and then waking up one morning to finding it had vanished or that suddenly most of the page was a header and footer full of somebody else's banners. Of course, that hosting space wasn't yours and you had no control and no real justification for complaining.
Just about every business has startup costs and in today's market if you are a new webmaster that is serious about making money in this industry it is important to take control of your own budding empire. You want to always be the one that has the say over what is happening on your pages and while I am not saying anything against current free hosts you just don't have that control unless you are the one paying the bills.
So, grab yourself a domain and some basic hosting if that is all you can afford to start out with (I am sure there are plenty people here that will be willing to help you with hosting offers) and start as you mean to continue in this industry.
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