File Hosting Profitable?

Discussion in 'General Business' started by surfville, Jul 25, 2009.

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    Are Rapidshare clone site profitable? whats the best way to monetize this sites? Pop Unders? Or premium account payments? any people here had success with them? i only plan of a small one maybe a couple of thousands of traffic not dreaming of something really big out of it.. A Decent buck and im happy..:)
     
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    shareservices Peon

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    It depends on how you market the site. I know the file hosting market is pretty saturated but if done properly you still have a pretty high chance to gain traffic. It's really word of mouth if you don't have a big advertising budget to promote your site.
     
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    mentos Prominent Member

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    Yes file hosting site is money making machine.
    The best way is payout like say the account got 1000 point,then you payout $1.
    Best monetize is using premium account not pop up ads.
     
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  4. surfville

    surfville Well-Known Member

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    thanks.. If you expect a traffic of say 20K UV a day what server would it require? Can it run to a 100Unmeterred Vps? with 1 TB Space? 2GB Ram?
     
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    thenewnumber1 Well-Known Member

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    I think that the idea could be quite profitable if you can market it to people... But with like mediafire and a few other sites that have file hosting for free, it may be kinda difficult
     
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    Of Course the service will be free like every filehosting is..:rolleyes: and a premium download service is paid like every filehosting is..
     
    surfville, Jul 26, 2009 IP