How a file hoster earn?

[darkingthereturn]

Well... except for the sale of premium account, where filesonic, fileserve, rapidshare, megaupload earn from? From the traffic that a user generate when download something? Advertisement?

Generally, is there something that makes possible to earn only generating traffic to/from a website without ads or sales?
Cheers

darkingthereturn Reviewed by darkingthereturn on 30th Jan 2011. How a file hoster earn? Well... except for the sale of premium account, where filesonic, fileserve, rapidshare, megaupload earn from? From the traffic that a user generate when download something? Advertisement? Generally, is there something that makes possible to earn only generating traffic to/from a website without ads or sales? Cheers :) Rating: 5

[fatfighter]

nope those are the only two ways
well fileserve also have referal links to videobb im sure that generates then a bit every week

[sloddl]

advertising / selling premium accounts... that's it i think.

[darkingthereturn]

what does it mean? technically, virtually, how the traffic leads to profit?
If I create a blog where somebody else post his links (uploaded stuff) and they are not referred by me, without using ads or selling something, can I earn something?
Can I earn only by the traffic generated?

[Maniac_]

If you have direct links from your blog to fileserve hotfile etc, even if you dont upload the stuff, you will make money from premium sales..

[sloddl]

no only with traffic you can't earn nothing... you need to to show some ads or something... so that they will pay you.

but in the filehosts case... more traffic means more premium account can be sold.

[darkingthereturn]

So, what link exchange consists of? Exchange traffic between two or more sites?

[kicker-hp_27]

Its totally clear,they have 100+ Sales daily mate.

[ILHFFS]

Its totally clear,they have 100+ Sales daily mate.

You are wrong body they have 10000+ Sales daily buddy

[torrfriend]

You are wrong body they have 10000+ Sales daily buddy

i think they are earn by selling premium only...

Eg:
fileserve: $60/year, so $5/month, then $0.17/day

think they have 1 lakhs premium members - 1lakhs * 0.17 = $17k/day...

i read in fdc server once - 100gbit server cost 100k/month
(But sure fileserve will buy it in bulk for long contract, so it should be cheaper than 100k)
Fileserve must have 300-400 gbit(Rapidshare already have 600 Gbit)

so 400gbit = 100k * 4 = 400k/month, so $13.33K/day


So Net value = 17k - 13.3k = some amount(they will pay for uploaders + profit)

BUT SURE there will not be any change in $13.3K, but 17k(practically it possible for more than 25k)

Note:
filehosts without popup will increse their reputation, more reputation more sales(so they keep ads away...)


Exception:
Mediafire/duckload even have premium, they use popup ads
Sure each popup will gives atleast 5 mill($ 0.005) for US/UK - but you can expect atleast three popup

sure they may earn millions if adblock/popup addons are not present...lol

I am weak in mathematics..lol