Have you ever seen a hosting company offer unlimited space and bandwidth on a hosting package. We’re all intelligent enough to know that’s not true, right? I hope so.

Site 5 has a ‘Freedom’ package running for the 4th of July where they guarantee a $5/mo hosting package (when paid for 5 years in advance) and you get unlimited space and bandwidth. Unlimited bandwidth I can see, it starts over every month and it’s really hard to use up gobs of it. But unlimited space?

BTW, if you’re sold on this Freedom package, or any other package they have, make sure to use this link when you sign up so I can make $85. You only have to stay for 2 months for me to make it, so if you’re paying $14.95 per month and stay for 2 months, how do they make any money?

I don’t understand Site5’s ideas on selling hosting, but it’s working for them. Or so it seems. I’ve seen many large companies go bankrupt, who knows where their profit margin is.

But, there’s a difference between unlimited and unmetered. Unlimited means it is limitless, nothing can stop you. If you want to upload 999 terabytes, you go right ahead. Screw anyone else on the server. But unmetered means they don’t limit you, but you are restricted by the limits of the server. I wouldn’t trust a company that tells me I can have unlimited space.

To let you know, The Blog World was recently moved to a reseller on Site5. I don’t like to host my sites on my own servers because I don’t want to be the cause of client downtime and I couldn’t justify having that dedicated server anymore. Since I have started with Site5 I haven’t noticed any downtime (but really, when have I been around?) and I have been hacked. I have never had a site hacked until I came here. I do intend to move when the time allows it because I like security.

If you’re here, I need a favor.

I’ve been neglecting The Blog World for multiple reasons, but most recently because I keep getting emails and such about a virus. A virus I can’t find. Well, just today I decided to look at the Buxr post I made (the last one) and I found a bunch of porn and casino links in the post, but hidden.

If you’re here, please help me out. Let me know if you get a virus popup. I think removing that resolved the problem completely, but since I don’t get the virus popup.. I can’t test it. It’s getting extremely frustrating.

If that wasn’t it, and I can’t find the ‘virus’ coding, I’ll just have to start over from scratch. It’s kind of disconcerting, but what other choice do I have? Thanks.

On December 3rd a new website was launched, with a somewhat innovative concept. Buxr Deals is a website that showcases deals and coupons for popular products, like Philips TVs and HP laptops.

I’m going to start with their affiliate program because this is the best part! Right now they’re running a contest where the 10 people with the most affiliates by January 4 get a prize. You have to sign up now and get as many referrals as you can, because the person with the most gets an 8GB iPhone Touch. I’m really excited, I’ve wanted one of these for a while but I can’t really justify the price. The others get an iPod Nano or a 4GB USB flash drive. And then you’ll go on to receive 10% of the earnings your referrals get for the next 12 months.

But the main part of Buxr is the publisher program. When you sign up and activate your account, you’re taken to a page to set up your widget. It’s a lot like the Google Adsense widget. You can pick colors, size, and even choose the content if you wish. Say you have a technology blog, just pick Electronics to avoid seeing unrelated products like tea kettles. Once you make the widget and put it into your sidebar (or wherever) you don’t need to think about it again. The great deals will sell themselves.

The payout for this site is $20, which beats the $100 or so you see elsewhere. And to make sure you’ll get your first $20, they give you a $10 bonus just for signing up. All you do is add this widget to your site and forget about it. When someone buys something, you make between 0.5% and 10% of the sale price. When someone clicks on the Buxr link (which is already set with your affiliate link) and signs up to add the widget to their own site, you make 10% of whatever they make. You could potentially make money long after you retire from blogging.

I’ll be trying it out here. Let me know if you’re trying it, too.

When Amanda first started The Blog World she had mentioned interest in creating a pro blogger website. Her dream of making a website like Pro Blogger (not worth the link) transformed into a site to help you make a site like that. She gained a lot of interest and did a lot of research. When she told me about all this and about how you could make thousands per month from a blog, I had mixed feelings. First was a “Woohoo, I blog! I can make money!” and another was “Isn’t there enough advertising in my face?” One of the things I always liked about surfing sites was that I could go there, enjoy the design and content, and not be bothered to buy prescriptions, or clothes, or whatever else you want to sell me.

Have you ever seen the movie Minority Report, with Tom Cruise? In this movie, as he walks around, these things scan his eyes and pop up with an ad to suit his specific needs. And they talk out loud to him. And everyone else on the street, in the subway, and in stores. And everyone’s just walking around ignoring them because they’re so common place. I see the world heading there, and I see pro bloggers helping.

I don’t want to be surrounded by advertising everywhere I go. I don’t want to go to my friend’s personal blog and have her try to sell me something she doesn’t even believe in. I don’t want to go to a website to look up how to change my faucet sprayer and have ads cut through each paragraph on the page. But for many people, this has become normal, and they’ve learned to just skip over them.

I’ve decided I’m going to focus mostly on website creation, blogging, and nonintrusive advertising that actually relates to the topic. I give Google kudos for trying to do that. Some times their ads are way off, but mostly they’re pretty relative. Don’t just sell ads to make money, make sure it’s actually something you would like for your visitors. In the end, you may find it benefits you more in ways you wouldn’t expect (possibly even monitarily).