Show HN: OneSite – Free, unlimited web hosting with cPanel and support. Yep • Hacker News Board

Their parent companies website is just as vague - https://every.international/. They were just founded on the 6th of September and the website purchased just about a month before that.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/every-llc#/entity

Re: Show HN: OneSite – Free, unlimited web hosting with cPanel and support. Yep

#6

Post by MatoBo » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 6:42 PM UTC

brianjking wrote: post #4

zerognowl wrote: post #3

What's the catch?

Seconded.

Hello, What we want to prove is that in this industry, paid customer acquisition costs are so high, that it's better to save these by increasing your server costs. We offer free web hosting, which essentially gets promoted alone. We have higher server costs, true, but it's still worth it. We earn money through Google AdSense on our site and through paid upgrades we'll soon be offering.

Re: Show HN: OneSite – Free, unlimited web hosting with cPanel and support. Yep

#7

Post by ddorian43 » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 7:18 PM UTC

MatoBo wrote: post #6

brianjking wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seconded.

Hello, What we want to prove is that in this industry, paid customer acquisition costs are so high, that it's better to save these by increasing your server costs. We offer free web hosting, which essentially gets promoted alone. We have higher server costs, true, but it's still worth it. We earn money through Google AdSense on our site and through paid upgrades we'll soon be offering.

You have no idea, don't you ? :)

Re: Show HN: OneSite – Free, unlimited web hosting with cPanel and support. Yep

#8

Post by MatoBo » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 8:37 PM UTC

ddorian43 wrote: post #7

MatoBo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hello, What we want to prove is that in this industry, paid customer acquisition costs are so high, that it's better to save these by increasing your server costs. We offer free web hosting, which essentially gets promoted alone. We have higher server costs, true, but it's still worth it. We earn money through Google AdSense on our site and through paid upgrades we'll soon be offering.

You have no idea, don't you ? :)

Well, I've been in the management of the biggest free web hosting provider for quite some years already. I do know what I am doing

Re: Show HN: OneSite – Free, unlimited web hosting with cPanel and support. Yep

#9

Post by SparkyMcUnicorn » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 9:15 PM UTC

MatoBo wrote: post #6

brianjking wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seconded.

Hello, What we want to prove is that in this industry, paid customer acquisition costs are so high, that it's better to save these by increasing your server costs. We offer free web hosting, which essentially gets promoted alone. We have higher server costs, true, but it's still worth it. We earn money through Google AdSense on our site and through paid upgrades we'll soon be offering.

If it's "unlimited everything for free", then what sort of things could be upgradable with a fee?

Re: Show HN: OneSite – Free, unlimited web hosting with cPanel and support. Yep

#10

Post by MatoBo » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 10:24 PM UTC

SparkyMcUnicorn wrote: post #9

MatoBo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hello, What we want to prove is that in this industry, paid customer acquisition costs are so high, that it's better to save these by increasing your server costs. We offer free web hosting, which essentially gets promoted alone. We have higher server costs, true, but it's still worth it. We earn money through Google AdSense on our site and through paid upgrades we'll soon be offering.

If it's "unlimited everything for free", then what sort of things could be upgradable with a fee?

We could very well provide VPSes, cloud services, domains and/or SSD web hosting where you could also host unlimited domains (now you can host one domain per account)