I was just reading a blog that had recently gotten popular due to TV exposure (it doesn't matter which one though). One of the recent entries apologized for the site being unavailable for a while as they had exceeded their bandwidth limits. Bandwidth limits?!
With Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and I will stop there but could name dozens more, giving away space and bandwidth for blogs, photos, and even huge video files, how can a company justify charging (yes there is a fee to use this service even at the most basic level) for it and ALSO imposing bandwidth limits?
I have nothing against this outfit, I've even heard good things about their software, but I question whether they have a business model that makes sense any more.
Looking down their features list, yeah, I get most of that for free from Blogger. In fact, prior to using Blogger I was getting all that for free by running my blog on an old PC at home. After doing that for a couple years I decided "why bother?" and switched to Blogger. I now save the electricity cost of running that old laptop as a web server.
I wish these people well, but I also send out my well wishes to those offering such services for free, the longer we can postpone the day when the Internet becomes a pay-for-everything service like cable TV the better.
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