i'm building an online news aggregator with more than 10.000 RSS feeds from the main USA/EU/ASIAPacific newspapers. questions : 1) do they pay decently ? my initial idea is to only display RSS feeds refreshed every xx hours and show an avalanche of ads on the header and sidebar 2) i can also make "rss to content" therefore when the user clicks on the news title he will land in the article page with internal links to related news, comments, and other shit all surrounded by ads. PROBLEM IS .. how can my server cope with 10.000 new articles/day even if we're talking of articles made up of barely 3-400 bytes each ? it's still 5-10MB/day of mySQL space that means ~3-4 GB/year ! so once again, is it worth it ? or is it better to just show RSS feeds in real time ? 3) even just showing real rss that link to their source, will google penalizing me for showing up hundreds of external links in one page ? 4) do you think it's possible to run 10.000 rss requests from a shared server (say HostGator, HostMonster, BlueHost, etc) ? or i need a dedicated VPS ?
1) do they pay decently ? my initial idea is to only display RSS feeds refreshed every xx hours and show an avalanche of ads on the header and sidebar The pay is not enough to cover your hosting cost initial.You need to wait at least 12 month then only can earn. 2) i can also make "rss to content" therefore when the user clicks on the news title he will land in the article page with internal links to related news, comments, and other shit all surrounded by ads. PROBLEM IS .. how can my server cope with 10.000 new articles/day even if we're talking of articles made up of barely 3-400 bytes each ? it's still 5-10MB/day of mySQL space that means ~3-4 GB/year ! so once again, is it worth it ? or is it better to just show RSS feeds in real time ? 10GB is not a big space requirement.So don't worry about it. 3) even just showing real rss that link to their source, will google penalizing me for showing up hundreds of external links in one page ? Yes,they will see it as link dumping site thus deindexed your site from search engine 4) do you think it's possible to run 10.000 rss requests from a shared server (say HostGator, HostMonster, BlueHost, etc) ? or i need a dedicated VPS ? This will require a lot of cpu resources,thus you need to stay away from shared host.Try to use at least a vps
thanks ! that's exactly what i feared : google will mark my site as a link-dump and the advertising money will be very very low