Penny Seeds

Are you an aspiring webmaster, but the economic downturn is leaving you a little pressed for cash? If you refer yourself to a company’s affiliate program you can save a nice chunk of money.

If you want to operate a website then you need hosting - bottom line. There’s a plethora of hosting companies out there, but some are a much better deal than others. This website is hosted with Awardspace - I’ve been very happy with them. Good up time, good prices, and.. well, I can’t really comment on customer service. I’ve never actually had to use it! There has not been a problem that I needed tech support to resolve.

Their affiliate program offers you a 50% payment for each sale you refer. So, essentially this means you’ll get 50% off of your hosting package that you choose. You can also pile coupon codes on top of that if they’re available. For example - Right now they’re also offering a 20% off coupon code ‘Winter’. This brings a one year basic hosting plan to $24 for the year for you! This would originally cost you about $48 to purchase.

The basic plan includes 60GB of disk space, 100 GB of traffic, a free domain name, and 20 MySQL databases with 50MB of storage for anybody who’s interested in knowing the statistics. There are of course bigger plans if you think you’re going to need them.

If you want to give it a test run you can also sign up for a totally free account! Their freebie service contains no ads, or hinderances. You’ll just get a much smaller chunk of server access, and you’ll be denied all the tools that paid account get (such as the one click script installer for Wordpress, Joomla, Agora Cart, ect.).

The best part is you can do this whenever you want. My hosting account expires in about four days, and will revert to a free account. I’m planning on just upgrading the account afterwards to get the $24 hosting. They ‘offer’ to upgrade my account for free, but it will still cost me about $60. They’re offering, because they know I won’t be using all the space their giving me - which translates into free money for them.

If you’re feeling a little bad, and like you’re taking advantage of the company - don’t. They even tell you about this option on their front page. It’s part of their marketing strategy; I’m just passing it a long. : )