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Originally Posted by MrYum
Honestly SBM...it 'may' have to do with your incessant quest for free hosting. See, most of the folks here are quite serious about their business and probably don't want to waste resources (time), submitting to a site that very likely will either be unstable or not last.
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There are some sites I've seen hosted on free hosts that have been around for years, nothing is etched in stone.
And I do plane on geting a domain name in time so even if I change hosts people will find my site.
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I know you're new, but as was discussed in your other thread...free hosting is a recipe for disaster. Either your site will be down frequently...or redirected...or worse...or, you'll simply get tired of your hobby and pull the site entirely. All of which result in a waste of time and effort for those that have submitted to your site. The words you were getting in the other thread were voices of experience...not just trying to trash your idea.
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I'm sure you folks mean well, though it does seem like a class issue, the same terms are used, trust me on this one, I grew up kinda a snob(until I grew up moved out and my parents money did not come along with me), A paid host would be great but what happens if I dont get a following right off the bat? I hate spending hard earned money and not getting a return, it has a way of turning the focus from providing a niche i believe in into doing what it takes to make money, and I dont want money to be the focus, I want trading REAL amateur Exotics to be the focus.
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If you really want submissions...and you really want to make a go of your site, you're going to need to get a bit more serious about it...that includes a real paid host...among other things. Of course, I could be wrong about all this...it is after all...jmho 
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I take no offence, all have their opinion and mine is not etched in stone, time changes all things, but I am a man of princable, I dont like getting ripped off, and i would hate to pay for the best hosting I can find only to find 2 months later someone else offering a better deal.
so every move I make I plan for evry thing.
and now for a little tail.
Well back in 96 I had a free site at eros village, it was based on latinaz, I took most of the photos myself (i was a bouncer at a strip club at the time) and I got abit of a following, my chatroom was always full and my message board was always buzzin.
after awhile I got my own domain and linked it to my old free site, I still posted on my free site even after I had the paysite up and running the only diff was my paysite had around 100 pics per gallery while do to space restrictions I only had 10 pics per gallery on my free site.
Well just counting profit I was making close to 5 grand a month within 4 months.
And it all started from message boards like the one at redsnake dot com, whitch was a hangout for guys who spent their weekends driving to tijuana & juarez, now not all of that was from memberships, alot of it was from affiliate but I did it once.
Infact I did not go under I just closed it down do to divorce I did not want it factored into my child/spousal support.
And how did it start?
Well I told a few people in the alt.prostitution.tijuana newsgroup and they told everyone who would listen.
now what I told them about was the free site cause thats all that I back then but it gave me a following and a ready made userbase for when I started my paysite.