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Acciato offers hosting with a twist
By admin | February 17, 2008
There is a site called Acciato which provides hosting with a very interesting. The site will host your content for free in return for you continuously putting in some input onto their forum. Basically it’s a ‘you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours’ kind of thing.
The site offers a free web hosting bundle with the following features:
<!–[if !supportLists]–>· <!–[endif]–>500 MB of space which is great considering it’s free.
<!–[if !supportLists]–>· <!–[endif]–>15 GB of bandwidth per month which again is very good.
<!–[if !supportLists]–>· <!–[endif]–>No ads which is good since you decide what gets space on your website
<!–[if !supportLists]–>· <!–[endif]–>Place your own ads (so you can make the additional reveue)
<!–[if !supportLists]–>· <!–[endif]–>PHP 5
<!–[if !supportLists]–>· <!–[endif]–>Unlimited Domains which means you can host as many sites as you want
<!–[if !supportLists]–>· <!–[endif]–>Unlimited MYSQL databases
<!–[if !supportLists]–>· <!–[endif]–>CGI/PERL/Ruby on Rails
The thing with this thing is that you have to be very active so that the site continues to host you. The logic behind this is that they can keep generating content through users and this will build page views and translate into AdSense clicks. This is probably a better way to go about things than most sites that just have automated stuff popping up every now and then.
So in order to be eligible for free hosting you have to write at least 5 posts or earn 14 points. This seems a decent option if you’re extremely low on cash and have a little spare time to write a few articles each day. If however time is important to you and you don’t mind spending something extra to another hosting service to host you site then you should probably look somewhere else.
Though I’d definitely give the developers of the site brownie points for innovation and the fact that they give people with low finances a chance to get up there.
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