top wordpress blogs have google ads?
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just wondering what people think about icanhascheezburger and some other of the top blogs that are listed for me having google ads, whereas we cannot
is that fair or am i too privileged?
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vip blogs are charged $250 per month, so i guess they need the advertising to pay the fees! =P
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{waving to sulz}
http://wordpress.com/vip-hosting/
VIP bloggers get what they pay for.
It’s not a question of privedge.
It’s entitlement ~ bought and paid for.… * Your tags go into and point to our Tags community.
* $600 to setup your site and $300 a month hosting fee.
Because of the nature of this program it is not open to the general public, it is intended for existing high-profile publishers, or startups that we have a good deal of confidence in. You may be a good candidate for VIP hosting if, for example, you get more than 500,000 pageviews a month on your blog. … -
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lol cheaper to go self hosted >.<
you’d have to be raking the cash in to justify those fees. I’m griping cause my hosting i going up to £19.99 a month. Think id have a heart attack if my host said they were raising it to £300 a month
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The levels of traffic these blogs are getting would make it a false economy to go with a cheaper host, as most of them don’t have the necessary resources and the sites would end up going down.
I have no problem with people paying a premium price for premium services. If wordpress.com denied its high-traffic sites the ability to host ads it would lose them, simple as that.
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The levels of traffic these blogs are getting would make it a false economy to go with a cheaper host, as most of them don’t have the necessary resources and the sites would end up going down.
I disagree. Some of the ‘few’ that do have the resources and are ‘cheap’ are:
a) hostgator.com
b) dreamhost.com
c) discountasp.netTheir up time is above 98%
It just takes a bit of research to find some good, reliable and affordable shared hosting providers.
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And two of those three I have always been told to avoid!
tiamatsdisciple – contact me, I want to talk to you about cheaper hosting. I don’t do hosting myself, I have a great deal I use and want to share it. Not allowed to talk about it on here and I can’t find your blog at animeblogger. Ta!
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really? I host 1 site on each of them and haven’t had any problems at all. Their tech support has been very helpful. But then again, I’m talking on personal experience.
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I would think that any blogger with a blog getting more than 500,000 pageviews a month might be concerned about server capacity. If, for example, articles were frequently dug, stumbled and slash-dotted the results could be a big time influx of visitors.
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It depends on the site. The standard hosting packages of those other hosts are not comparable to the VIP hosting package from WordPress.com. I would be surprised that they don’t have similar packages available to the coveted sites with MASSIVE amounts of pageviews.
Trent
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I seriously doubt a VIP blog would be hosted in a simple hosting account normally. When you start talking high traffic, that’s when you start leaning towards multiple boxes.
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One of the (I guess) good things about VIP hosting here is that there’s no bandwidth issues. Simple hosting accounts could work well enough but the bandwidth restrictions would cripple a site like icanhascheezburger in a couple of days. Then they end up paying through the nose for the extra bw.
No such problems with a VIP account. Also, there’s no worries about formats, backups, tech support or any of the backend stuff. And they get Adsense etc.
If I had a blog/startup etc worthy of that many pageviews and that much income I would seriously consider the VIP hosting too. Never likely to happen for me though!
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lol just click my name to go straight to my blog :)
As for dreamhost, they’re one of the worst hosts in the business. I’ve been active in the anime community for a number of years nnow, and most groups start off with dream host cause they’re so cheap. However they’re evil if you start getting serious page hits. Several groups had their accounts deleted cause of page hits overloading the apache server.
They’re also one of the most evil when it comes to protecting your copyrite. They make it so difficult and expensive to protect your rights that most people just give up in frustration. We recently had a problem with a scraper taking ALL of WP.com, they were hosted with DreamHost.
HostGator has an equally infamous name, usually tied to over charging, site down times, and i know of a few cases where sites have just disappeared.
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