Re: My Very Strange Webhost, SBI! -- Opinions, Please

On May 10, 5:27 am, Mark Goodge <use...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> That may be true if your only income is from advertising,

Yeah, my monetization will be Adsense and affiliate programs for some
time to come, until I can produce my own hard-product like a self-
published book or self-produced DVD, which I don't expect to have time
for until after a year of content creation to make sure that the site
is as "complete" as it could be.

> although it
> depends on what you mean by "much money" - I've helped create an
> ad-sup****ted website which is currently ranked around 500,000 by Alexa
> and generates around $250 a month in Google Adsense earnings. That's
> not a huge amount, but it covers the costs of hosting it with plenty
> to spare and it's a useful second income for the owner (who isn't me,
> by the way; this isn't one of my sites that I've mentioned in other
> posts to this group).

Well, paying for itself is the least of it for me; it's got to be of
value to a great many people...which means traffic, which means ad-
clicks....

> It's certainly not true if you're selling an actual product or
> service. I've worked on a site which has an Alexa ranking in the
> 300,000 range that earns enough to sup****t several full-time employees
> and a bunch of contractors.

Indeed.  I'm sorry; I should have noted that my site will be a sort of
"lifestyle resource"...it's niche content is what it is.  My concerns
right now are content, and -- for lack of a better term -- SEO.
That's why SBI! is driving me batty with one little weirdness after
another!  And they won't say why, except that that's just how they
work...presumably meaning that their proprietary database of a server
needs just this current set-up in order to do its SEO magic....

I'm pretty annoyed with them, though -- it's two weeks to the day
today between four different reps for them to finally tell me that
images used in an image-swap need to bear absolute path names for
their server to see them...?!?!  Sounds like a friggin' server bug to
me, but they claim it's "just how SBI! works"...yeah, right; how come
you didn't tell me so right away?

I'm so annoyed with them but I fear that I would be annoyed with any
other webhost, as I really don't know what's industry standard in
terms of service and maybe there exist other webhosts out there with
weird stipulations like images-in-an-image-swap-must-bear-absolute-
path-names....

> Mark
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