free blog host pornblogs now gone

[HunkyLuke]

I discovered pornblogs.com is now redirecting all of its traffic, including traffic that you may be sending to any freehosted blogs that you setup...so might as well remove your links, etc.

[Bec]

Thanks for the heads up... I recently went through my page of freehosts on Adultblogbuilder and removed at least 8 sites that were either gone, or you couldn't finalize signing up.

[Bi4life]

Thanks for the heads up... I recently went through my page of freehosts on Adultblogbuilder and removed at least 8 sites that were either gone, or you couldn't finalize signing up.

Hi Bec,
Three (or more) of the freehosts on your current list are run by one person, the webmaster tools they offer are down most of the time, their forum is nearly dead, and their customer service (when available), is Glacial.
Nibblebit.com is an adult friendly freehost. They host their own images, offer unlimited space, and have fast customer service. My blog (Homepage-under name) is one of theirs. I've had it about four years and have never experienced any serious downtime. With all of the services they offer, I find one pop-up per visit to be a very small price to pay.

[dirtyratstudios]

Unless they host a domain name for you, you risk losing all the traffic that you've built up if they disappear or decide to stop their hosting and redirect that traffic. So one pop up may not be the only price you're paying longer term.

[Bi4life]

Unless they host a domain name for you, you risk losing all the traffic that you've built up if they disappear or decide to stop their hosting and redirect that traffic. So one pop up may not be the only price you're paying longer term.

This is very true, however, we run the same risks if we choose the wrong paid webhost. Their site could fail. They could be uncaring, or incompetent, or dishonest. Tools and services they provide could be unreliable, or withdrawn. The only CERTAINTY with many paid webhosts is: Miss a payment or two and you lose everything. Nibblebit is the right choice for me because: I recently became disabled. Soc. Sec. Disability is my only source of income. Newly disabled people are ineligible for Medicare during the first two years of their disability. An extra monthly expense (of any size) is a luxury I cannot afford. One final thought: I have hand selected nearly 1000 videos and scheduled them to post to my blog every day or two from now until the end of 2014. I wonder how much a paid site would charge me to do that?

[Bec]

Hi Bi4life

Yes, I am aware that Twan owns several of the freehosts and his support went down the tubes a few years back. I'll look over the one you have mentioned and get it onto my site as another resource.

I totally empathize with the position you are finding yourself in as I am also disabled and counting every penny. Besides the freehosted blog sites be sure to look into any sponsor that gives their affiliates free hosting for galleries you create for their sites. Check the tutorial area of GWW for other ways to market and monetize your efforts. And of course, feel free to pick the brains of the other GWW members here by asking questions.

[dirtyratstudios]

I sympathise with your situation. I know that even a few Dollars a month can mount up over the course of a year.

Really the key is to have your own domain name. Then you can move that anywhere you like and regardless of which hosting services come and go. If a service disappears overnight you simply change the nameserver information to that of a new host elsewhere.

The other key thing is to always have up-to-date back ups of your site on your own PC at home (whether it's static pages or driven by a database as in the case of Wordpress. That way you will never lose content.

If you don't have your own domain name then you are building a site at an address which is operated by someone else. You spend maybe years getting links from other sites and search engines and all of that has a terrific value. But it can disappear overnight if the owner of the site pulls the plug and you will be back to square one. Whereas if you own your own domain name you take all that goodness with you when you move hosts.

On most hosting you could schedule the videos using PHP or Extended Server Side Includes. I'm a big fan of the latter. For example the following code will show a piece of content only in the month of August this year:

<!--#config timefmt="%Y/%m/%d" -->

<!--#if expr="($DATE_GMT >= 2012/08/01) && ($DATE_GMT <= 2012/08/31)" -->

CONTENT HERE

<!--#else -->


<!--#endif -->

This is very true, however, we run the same risks if we choose the wrong paid webhost. Their site could fail. They could be uncaring, or incompetent, or dishonest. Tools and services they provide could be unreliable, or withdrawn. The only CERTAINTY with many paid webhosts is: Miss a payment or two and you lose everything. Nibblebit is the right choice for me because: I recently became disabled. Soc. Sec. Disability is my only source of income. Newly disabled people are ineligible for Medicare during the first two years of their disability. An extra monthly expense (of any size) is a luxury I cannot afford. One final thought: I have hand selected nearly 1000 videos and scheduled them to post to my blog every day or two from now until the end of 2014. I wonder how much a paid site would charge me to do that?