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I have a popular documentary site which has been around for many years, streaming full length docs for small beer, it pays the hosting costs basically. But what I learned over the years that in order to survive (i.e pay the bills as hosting / streaming content is relatively expensive) is that you have to adopt the Megavideo model, i.e charge for content only after people are addicted to it. They used to force payment after 60 free minutes. I struggled to make any cash with a paywall system and only when I switched to pay in video system did it start making money. Clearly the megavideo model worked as they had 6 million in assets ceased apparently (poor sods).

I built the concept out into a standalone system in Flash and its at karsa.co.uk but for these days it would need to work in html not flash.

Wheres the audience? at leweb, It looks really spartan compared to other conferences?

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Such a shame, once a great company, taken over recently by the notorious 1&1 who have a long history of making clients suffer extremely poor support, also make it incredibly hard to cancel services (you actually have to log into a separate login panel to cancel services).

Well, thinking of registering a domain with Fasthosts? Think again, they will lock down the domain so you cannot transfer it out to another registrar for 60 days, this is on all domains including .uk where there is no requirement or reason for this?

It gets worse : phone support promises resolutions manually which never happen, emails unresponded to for days.

It's a major shame as Fasthosts used to be one of the best UK registrars but since the changeover they have turned into just another registrar to avoid. Up there now with 1&1...