About Us
Sponsored Hosting is the creation of a consortium of nerds who have many years of experience working in the Hosting industry for a variety of companies. After decades of watching arbitrary decisions being enacted and enforced, we reached the conclusion that Hosting is a utility that should become democratized so that the public can self-determine which sites are worthy of remaining viable online in the marketplace of ideas rather than the heavy-handed top down approach too often favored by large media companies for profit, or other entities as a way of controlling the narrative of new ideas.
Sponsored Hosting has established access to state of the art hosting services with lightning fast servers, leading technologies, full CDN capabilities and all of the other functionality any company would expect to find from any Tier 1 hosting service. While access to these services does come at great cost, the Sponsored Hosting difference is that we allow publishers to defray those costs by accepting direct donations from their fans, visitors, consumers and friends.
As an intermediary crowdfunding service Sponsored Hosting is focused on connecting quality Hosts with Publishers and Consumers in a way that has never been available anywhere else until now.
If your site is struggling to keep up with its overhead, and you are trying to continue offering your loyal visitors a way to enjoy your content without a paywall or other method of monetization that is less inclusive, you can choose instead to create your own Sponsored Hosting account. In a matter of days you could be utilizing the best hosting services in the world, and doing it all without any hosting bill thanks to small contributions from the people who care most about your content!
Instead of hoping a site does well enough to pay its bills, which encourages all site owners to skew content toward what they believe will earn the most revenue, you can now take an active role in providing direct funding for the basic services essential to the site. That frees up their editorial staff to cover the kind of content you actually want to learn from and enjoy.
Imagine if television news could have its bills all paid by viewers – they might actually start to cover news with less bias and take an interest in better serving their viewers, rather than continuing to follow their unfortunate “if it bleeds it leads” approach to what may loosely be referred to as “journalism” in modern era.
Sponsored Hosting is helping to take the money out of politics, the bias out of entertainment, and the financial concern out of publishing by putting consumers first and making the people who actually consume the content on the Internet the ones who are funding it and supporting the ideas expressed independently.