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A good article. There are a few free web hosting sites that do not force ads on their users. Do you think you can compete with them if you want your ads on your users' sites? If the paid hosting is not going to be provided by you, but the company you are going to affiliate with, what happens to the content of your user's site, when he or she upgrades? Will the content be transferred automatically (or smoothly, at least) through the new host to the new site?
Thank you for the comments everybody! Like I've mentioned in the blog post, user's certainly won't like ads being displayed on their websites and there's also a chance of the user's website being related to adult content or warez or any other illeet material. This can be harmful for you as well as for the user (obviously he/she won't like it). That is why I recommend something like AdBrite for the user's websites. Perhaps, you don't have to put any large ads, just a small banner or maybe even a half-banner should do good as the user probably won't mind a small portion of his website being filled with ads. But it's entirely upto you, as the main source of income is obviously going to be the affiliates and not this, so if you want to keep your users happy, I suggest not putting the ads on the user's website. And nope, the content of the user's account on your free hosting website will have to be transferred manually by the user into the affiliate company's hosting account.
I have also updated the blog on how to choose the right dedicated server, might as well wanna check that out before buying the server for a free web hosting project.