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Ever wonder why the hosting space is so competitive?

Well the thing is – it’s very simple to get started, especially with VPS hosting.

You can buy a VPS from slicehost or some other VPS retailer, get cpanel and break it into segments for your customers. (This can all basically be done for you)

From there all you do is setup a website where you’re going to sell hosting, and promote it online. Most people oversell their VPS/Dedicated servers offering shared hosting because most people that buy the hosting don’t use it much.

If a customer uses too much data they usually get kicked off. This is different with companies such as Hostgator as they can take a few users using tons of bandwidth for their sites because they’re so large, but big consumers will still get kicked from there.

Unlimited in the shared hosting world is never really “unlimited” they just say that to make you feel better and the limits are actually in the TOS for the most part.

So if you want to dive right in – that’s pretty much all you need to do – and most of the shared hosting biz is run around advertising now – so you’ll want someone who can really market the crap out of your website. This is where the real cost comes in – marketing.

Don’t expect to make much without heavy advertising.

The old debate: Which is better, torrents, usenet, or file hosts?

File Hosts VS Usenet

Well it comes down to what you’re looking for. The main drawback of file hosts is that content can be hard to find sometimes. However, like Usenet, you get full download speed at all times. The other issue with file hosts is that they come and go, look at what happened to megaupload. Usenet on the other hand is about as easy to search through as torrents. The download procedure is also just as simple but with the benefits of a file host. File hosts also have less content in general than Usenet. Comparing costs, Usenet can be made to cost about the same as file hosts as well. This doesn’t include the “free” limited downloads file hosts offer.

So.. File hosts vs usenet, who wins? Usenet. No doubt about it.

Torrents VS Usenet

When comparing torrents vs usenet, the debate gets a little trickier. You can get tons of stuff for free off torrents, and sometimes max your bandwidth. It’s easy to use, but it does have some drawbacks. Your IP is visible to others when you use a torrent, so there is a chance for you to get kicked off your ISP if you’re doing something naughty. The other problem is many public torrents are poorly seeded or have no seeds at all. Usenet, on the other hand does not display your IP address, and seeders aren’t necessary.

But but wait, what about using a Seedbox on a private tracker? Well this is where things can get about equal between torrents and usenet – seedboxes can cost more but in general torrents can offer more content than usenet in some specific areas. Still, the maintenance can be high on running your seedbox, and you still run at a risk. You also need to be part of all the “good” private trackers, be seeding constantly and watching your ratio. That sounds like a pain to me. With usenet, you don’t worry about such things. Just download, download, download your linux isos all day long with no worries.

Torrents VS Usenet: Usenet wins.

Conclusion

While with torrents and usenet, it really comes down to what content your after, in general usenet wins over file hosts and torrents. With newsgroupdirect and terabyte Tuesday, you can download pretty much everything you want for less that a cup of coffee per month.

So why use anything else? Well a lot of people think that usenet is complex – but read my tutorial and give it a shot yourself, find out how complex it really is to get running.

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I’ve had Newsdemon service for a long time now, I got it when they were running a special. Newsdemon does run off Highwinds servers so they do have missing parts here and there depending on what you’re after.

Overall, I can’t say I can really complain with Newsdemon. I pay $6/month for their secure unlimited plan, and it works fine. I’ve ended up comboing it with Astraweb and Usenet-news. This is due to the incompletes I experience with Highwinds.

If you see the blackfriday deal for newsdemon, it’s a good deal, and probably about as good as you’re going to do. Since Newsdemon is just a reseller, like many others, you can pretty much only rate them based on support, and Newsdemon is “ok” in that area.

However, if you want the most “complete” usenet experience like me, you’ll want to combine Highwinds, Astraweb, and Readnews.

A better place to get an unlimited account is Usenetserver. They only charge $10/month. The other option is to use block accounts from Newsgroupdirect. They have specials on terabytes now and then, along with decent deals on 500gb. So, combine an unlimited Usenetserver account + Astraweb block account + Usenet-server block account (Readnews) and you get something that’s about as stable as possible.

With that type of combo I can safely grab 1,000+ day old posts. For more info on usenet, check out my other posts.