Re: Facebook? It is sites like those and people becoming dis-satisfied with the service, agreements, and games played by the companies that host that has enabled my business to grow quite a bit.
I like to say that Web 2.0 (sites like Facebook and MySpace) are sites where the users/members do all the work and the sites collect all the profit.
At a few dollars for a domain name, a few dollars for hosting, and all the difficulties being taken out of the creation of sites more people just keep coming in as clients. They make their sites, invite a few friends, and eventually end up with a forum or blog and they put up some AdSense ads from Google and make a few dollars on the side doing what they were doing with other sites. Some of them even have businesses and make a decent bit of cash with their sites.
I suppose that those are the reasons that people still bother to get hosting when they could just as easily get free stuff from Google, Microsoft, AOL, their ISP, etc...
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