Site App Microfee Licensing?
I got an idea today from a web hosting forum I post at about a new idea. In a discussion of web hosting pricing and packages and plans, somebody threw out the idea that those webmasters who actually use the open source applications should pay a per usage microfee. Minimal per-usage fees could lower the overall hosting charges big ticket hosting companies use.
Since actual hosting is much cheaper without the heavy code files and directory trees of hosted open source and brand apps, why not introduce the idea of microfee licenses per user per site? One of the biggest blocks to new domain websites is the hosting fees that inflate any domain name investment. The price of some web hosting plans, even the lower end ones, could come into a realistic perspective for fledgeling domainers.
The hosting company usually offers an array of open source and trademarked applications. These applications are offered because they make it easy to install and compose websites with ease. But if the real price of hosting was nothing more than fixed electricity and rackspace, bulk development of even the largest domain portfolios could happen.
Low-rent hosting plans usually spell disaster because experienced domainers know the company will fold or crimp its sever management and take a powder at the worst possible time in the webmaster’s timetable. If the reference community of active websites was graduated ten thousand fold, imagine what the link building and article directory possibilities could be.
Of course, there is always the hope that one renegade reseller will purchase a monster account and sweep the hosting industry….and domainers along with it.
