oscer -
I don't want you to think that this is a rip to you, I don't even know you, and I'm sure you provide a great service. But just a couple of ideas.
- You need to give what the terms are. On your signup page you require that people check, but you never tell them what they are agreeing to
- There is no sample of what your headers/footers look like, most people won't signup if they don't know what they have to deal with in terms of ads!
- I came away from your site not knowing how big a file size you have, do you allow movie file types, or just html ????
- nit picky things like your signup page is kind of weird, not aligned, do you really need to know my sex ?? Why both birthday and age ??? Not a big thing, but seems odd to ask.
If I were to start a free host, there would be a number of things that I would do. Including.
- virtual domains would be nice. Sub-domains would be a requirement. In other words you shouldn't have
http://www.stynk.com/members/bob/something.html I would make it
http://member.stynk.com/ much easier to use!
- Multiple domains to choose from for names, in fact I would make them category based. Have like
freelesbianpics.com
freegaypics.com
freehardcorepics.com
freeebonypics.com
That way you could target your ads to the persons page that is using your service, and if they don't use the right cat, you can delete them.
- I'm not sure why free hosts don't offer some sort of simple stats, that way you can keep the hardcore counter/stats buttons off the pages. Which hit's on the other thing, if I'm a webmaster that tries to tease the surfer, and you have hardcore ads on your headers/footers I can't do my job. Maybe an option to be on a domain which only has softcore ads, and buttons only.
- Maybe a links list that lists all sites with you already, that could drive traffic to the sites. Be like your own tgp
- A paid hosting option would be nice, and it would work in well with the subdomains due to the fact that you could put them on a different server by just changing the dns

I think a lot of people use the free hosts as disposable due to the fact that so many of them have come and gone

But if you make it so that they can grow with you, and switch over to a full paid hosting if they are successful with their sites they might be more likely to work with you. I know that CDSmith does most all of his stuff on free hosts, so he might be able to chime in here and give some more suggestions!
Again no disrespect meant to you, I just thought you might think about some of these items, and they might help
Tim
[This message has been edited by hardcorehosting (edited 06-02-2001).]