![]() Its difficulty to near impossible to live on Donations. The Problem is simple, to many people live in this culture of getting stuff for free. What has Digiex got in return for it? Nothing. Based on the number of downloads (at time of writing) Digiex has saved 5,000 people, that's potentially a saving for consumers of $50,000. ![]() This driver potentially saves users $10 by saving them having to buy drivers from the makers website to use there bluetooth. An example would be the Bluetooth Driver Digiex provides. A website which providers very popular content to a wide number of people can sometimes make Revenue solely from Donations. Online shops like Amazon don't need to seek ways to cover their bandwidth costs because by providing the online shopping experience they are getting customers to buy their products.Some websites charge for access to "premium" content which costs them time, and bandwidth costs. There is a number of ways internet sites seek to gain revenue to pay for themselves: ) as their website is paid for to sell products on it and as such, it inst really hosted at a loss. Some Websites don't apply to this though, like online shops (i.e. Digiex is just an example, of the hosting costs behind Websites and the fact is, they do cost someone money to host. You may be asking why I'm boring you with Digiex's history and whats the relevance with Ad Blockers, but it will be explained further on. This means we shared a box with 4 other users but each "customer" on the box was hidden from another using some fancy Virtualization trickery, and the appearance of our own box is given. We couldn't afford a Dedicated Box so we went for what's considered the next step in Web Hosting, a VPS (Virtual Private Server). We lasted on that for 6 months before our site got too many hits and kept becoming suspended as we used more than our fair share of CPU usage. The costs them moved up to around $10 a month. We then went to Bluehost which offered more bandwidth which we needed. This did fine for a while, but we outgrow their small 10gb a month limit and had to move up. We then moved onto a very cheap shared hosting provider (). The problems experienced where with the internet connection, home internet connections just couldn't cope (50kb upload limit). Myself (Nimrod) built a old PC out of spare parts, installed a server operating system (Windows Server 2003) and Digiex coped just about being hosted on that. ![]() When we were small back in 2004 we hosted the site on a home PC's. ![]() An example would be a site many of the staff here are fond of, where as their site grew, they couldn't even cope with one Dedicated Server and had to move onto more.įor this example, I will use this website you are viewing (Digiex). This is where costs can move up massively from as little as $40 a month to $1,000's when they grow. Usually one or more dedicated or Virtual (VPS) servers. Then as sites become bigger, shared hosting isn't really suitable due to the slow speeds a busy site will experience on them (as its also hosting another 2,000 sites.) and eventually have to move onto bigger hosting. Digiex use to run on a shared host called Bluehost. Costs can vary, some smaller websites are hosted on what's known as a Shared Host, where a Web Host puts up to 2,000 hosting packages on one single IP, and as such offers cheap hosting around between $2 and $10 a month. Some use Javascript to pick up keywords and remove them while others just block certain urls from loading (like Google Adsense).įor some reason in the world we live in, people just don't seem to consider that hosting a website isn't free (partly due to sites like Freewebs and Yahoo Geocities). What they do is simple, they remove known adverts from a web page and show the users the site with them removed. These days many programs sell themselves as being able to block internet adverts to improve the "Internet Experience" for users, some are free like Adblock for Firefox while others cost like AdMuncher. The Dangers of AdBlockers on the Internet ![]()
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