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Originally posted by zubr
Tim, thats a very effective solution,
but it takes out the sense of freehosting,
people who for some reason dont want to buy anything use it!
Be it $1 or $100, they dont want upfront fees...
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Zubr -
I disagree, I think that you can make a good case for it on your signup page. Let's take for instance the "ID verify" that ebay uses. It's like $5, that is charged by a 3rd party so you can claim that you make no income from it whatsoever. You are going to all but eliminate the need to spend hours a day, searching and removing, warez & CP from your servers. You can explain that by doing this, your servers will function better than other freehost's since your resources are not being abused by those that upload warez and CP, and take away system resources. It also allows you to offer more and better tech support since your not pouring over stats all day long looking for warez and CP. Here is the thing, you were offline because of this happening, so how much money were you making while your ip's were shut off ?? Wouldn't it be better to have 50% of the customer base and not worry about being shut off again ??
And I again state for the record that most providers will shut you off, when you have multiple instances of the same issue over and over again, so Cogent isn't the bad guys here! I applaud them for setting a standard and holding to that standard, even when it means that they are going to loose money by loosing a customer.
Tim