SponsoredHosting.

You may be wondering, how is this different from buying a membership or sending a donation to a site owner. In some ways Sponsored Hosting is an even more direct way to accomplish your goal.

When you buy a membership on any website you lose control over how those funds are eventually spent. Will they be used to create more content for you, or will they be allocated to the office Christmas party? Will the money be wasted or will it be used to actually grow the reach and power of the ideas being expressed that you support?

With Sponsored Hosting you finally have access to a revolutionary way to provide self-directed funding. Self-Directed is a very important term to understand. Unlike other kinds of payments or funding you send to any website, when you become a sponsor of the site’s hosting you are actually paying their hosting bill directly. The money cannot be allocated to any other purpose and you are ensuring the site will remain online in the future, ready to provide you with even more of the content you want to consume.

It’s a revolutionary way to handle hosting but it’s not entirely unique. Other services have already existed for years with a similar model. Board game enthusiasts (like us) have used Kickstarter, Patreon and GameFound to sponsor many kinds of independent content creators. GoFundMe has been used for all kinds of charitable actions that need funding as well. SponsoredHosting.com is our way of modernizing the hosting services of independent publishers to provide them all with state of the art hosting service under a similar funding paradigm to what these other services already provide in those other verticals.

We hope to develop a community of sponsors in the near future and to embolden consumers as a collective so that the people who actually use these websites have a larger voice than the corporations seeking only to monetize your views.

Bandwidth is expensive and the cost of operating a modern website continues to increase rapidly as consumer expectations also rise. If it was free to host sites we would simply donate our time and do all of this at zero cost, because it’s that important to us, but the hardware, electricity, rent and other expenses of operating a world class hosting company adds up and becomes a significant expense on a server by server basis – especially for the kinds of high volume free video, VR and news services that have become so popular recently. That’s why we, and all the site operators offering you the chance to sponsor their hosting are asking you to do your part by stepping up to help fund their efforts.