Co-branded Webhosting: What Is It?
Have you heard of co-branded webhosting? Are you wondering what it is? This article will explain what co-branded hosting is and give a few examples.
Some webhosting providers have co-branded webhosting services which allow other domains names to offer free webhosting using their services and software. This is what the term co-branded webhosting means. There are a number of co-branded webhosting services in operation today which includes: OCatch, Community Architect, Portland and Wigloo/Megagiga. Muttle, Excelland and Homestead are co-branded webhosting services that have been popular in the past.
Below is a short list of some co-branded hosts and their offers:
Community Architect
Community Architect is a co-branded webhosting service that offers partnership for free. If you are a co-branded webhosting partner of Community Architect you receive 50% of the banner space and additional revenue if members choose one of the three member upgrade options. For those who want to avail of premiere partnership, a $49.95 per month is charged. You can have 100% ownership of the banner space or remove the banners including the Community Architect logos. Community Architect and other hosting service that offer free co-branded hosting to the cohost. This is not really a safe host considering co-branded webhosting users will need to rely on at least two services to continue their free service. Which could be a disadvantage should one service quit such as in the case of Excelland. When Excelland folded a few years back, a number of co hosts were forced to close their business too.
Free webhosting in Community Architect partners has 12 MB space for Subdomain, Forced banner, upload via browser, ISML scripting, file size limit of 256 KB, bandwidth 512 MB/month and scripts, email forwarding and other email services.
0Catch or ZeroCatch
0Catch or ZeroCatch Partners do not offer hardware or tech support for their users. 0Catch Partners have a 50% charge of banner ads in member pages and 25% of the entire paid upgrade subscriptions after 10 paid signups. Partners are given banner-free web space to host the domain name. All pages are made automatically but you can customize them. You can email all users, edit and delete user accounts. 0Catch also features statistics for banner totals, user signups and bandwidth usage. 0Catch partners are required to pay $14.95 per month. Domains can change MX record for email which enables some 0catch partners to offer free email services through another third-party company.
OCatch partners free co-branded webhosting has 100 MB space for Domain or Subdomain, forced Banner-Top or Popup, upload using FTP or browser, statistics, file sizes limit 1MB, bandwidth 600 MB per month, password-protected files and scripts features for the web site users.
Wigloo/Megagiga
Wigloo/Megagiga co-branded webhosting has free hosting and co-branded hosting under their subdomain. Signup is not working anymore. If what matters most to you is gaining a URL name and hosting features only come as secondary requirement then you can try co-branded webhosting for your web site.
Portland
Portland co-branded webhosting service has 15 MB space, upload thru FTP, scripts, bandwidth of 100 MB/moth, file size 2 MB, web-based email, POP3 or forwarding, statistics and MP3.
If you do some searching you will most likely find other co-branded hosts as the practice is fairly popular. However, if you are serious about your online presence, the best bet is for you to choose paid traditional hosting for your site, so that you are in control of your site and have some assurance of uptime.