Well, real quick question... How do sites that rely solely on offering free hosting and bandwidth stay in business? I can somewhat understand for photobucket.com, as the files they share are quite small, but what about yousendit.com, which stores and shares files up to 1GB in size? I mean, they must make money somehow to pay for the storage space and bandwidth... At 1GB per file, wouldn't that become very expensive, very quickly?
ETA: I know some e-mail services like GMail uses ads that are selected in regards to what is written in your messages, but these two sites cannot do the same as they host/share non-written material...
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Photobucket offers paid accounts for $25 US a year, plus I think they have ads (I don't remember as I have a paid account)
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I got the impression when setting up my photobucket account that it was going for eBay customers in a big way - it gives explicit instructions about how to post pictures and then embed them in an eBay listing.
That would be beneficial for eBay - it's a good thing for eBay that customers can display photos easily, and it saves eBay having a specific mechanism of their own - so it's possible that photobucket at least gets a subsidy from eBay too.
I don't actually know if that's the case but it's possible.
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quote:Originally posted by Oualawouzou: ETA: I know some e-mail services like GMail uses ads that are selected in regards to what is written in your messages
This just reminds me of a mildly amusing incident. I sent a one sentence email to my sister's GMail account. Her reply: "GMail is trying to sell me lobster." (Nowhere in my email did I mention anything even remotely ralated to lobster.)
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quote:Originally posted by Oualawouzou: ETA: I know some e-mail services like GMail uses ads that are selected in regards to what is written in your messages
This just reminds me of a mildly amusing incident. I sent a one sentence email to my sister's GMail account. Her reply: "GMail is trying to sell me lobster." (Nowhere in my email did I mention anything even remotely ralated to lobster.)
Maybe you were just being crabby
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I'm really sorry; it's unbelievably late and that's just REALLY funny to me right now...
ETA: late if you consider 6:30 am still "night time". *sigh.
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