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I can tell the same stories as John, webhosting has become quite
expensive, and most free hosting services like scene.org or
meet-music.com or iuma.com, which enable people like us to link mp3s
that have been uploaded there into our own sites, are about to run out
of webspace themselves or have become rather slow or are not reliable
enough or... (fill in other probable reasons), so you have to go and PAY
for the promotion of mp3s and that means, you have to have a regular
income and quite a bit of what is called idealism to maintain a label on
the web.
I don't know what experiences other administrators/webmasters make with
CD/CD-R sales, the risk is quite low of course if you just produce on
demand, but usually I don't believe it will purvey enough money to pay
the artists AND balance the losses caused by webspace payment, not to
speak about the time people invest in caring and updating the pages.
I have the impression, that everyone who sees the necessity to finally
BUY CD-Rs from weblabels drives one label him/herself, what most times
ends up in CD-R exchange rather than sales that bring money into my pocket.
To cut a long story short: Keeping up a weblabel is no business, it's
more or less networking, building up a community and having fun with
likeminded people.
Store
http://www.retinascan.de
Stasisfield.com schrieb:
>
> --
> just wanted to chime in on this thread...so far, i've been paying for
> my server space (and bandwidth, which is a larger consideration than i
> had originally expected).
>
> when i first began stasisfield, my main concern was finding an isp
> that would give me as much server space as possible for the least
> amount of money. i was lucky enough to find a host that offered
> *unlimited* storage for a fairly reasonable price. however, i didn't
> realize that their bandwidth allotments weren't quite large enough for
> my needs--the day i launched the site and announced it to several
> lists, it immediately went down and stayed down for a week until i
> caved and purchased a bandwidth upgrade, which has effectively doubled
> my annual hosting fee.
>
> luckily, a friend of mine has been able to help out with an additional
> (so far free) server, which some of stasisfield's releases have been
> hosted on in order to ease the bandwidth burden. for now, this has
> worked out very nicely (altho it would sure be nice to either find
> enough *free* server space + bandwidth -- or sell quite a few more
> CD-Rs to make up at least part of the current server costs!).
>
> as for the effectiveness of a domain name, i pretty much saw it as a
> necessity, since it helps reinforce the label's name and makes it
> easier for people to find it online (then again, i spent 6 years
> designing web sites for a living and was indoctrinated into the
> "e-business" culture, which i'm sure has sufficiently twisted my view
> of this somewhat ;-)
>
> A concise, easy-to-spell name seems to be the best way to go. i
> thought i had done that with "stasisfield", however i've come across
> several creative misspellings of it online ("statisfield",
> "statsfield," and my personal favorite, "satisfied").
>
> i definitely feel the site so far has been a "success", since it has a
> steady stream of visitors--not a huge number, but extremely steady.
> and that's what makes all the money, time and effort worth it: knowing
> that the music i'm promoting is actually getting listened to by an
> audience who appreciates it.
>
>
> john
>
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I can tell the same stories as John, webhosting has become quite expensive,
and most free hosting services like scene.org or meet-music.com or iuma.com,
which enable people like us to link mp3s that have been uploaded there into
our own sites, are about to run out of webspace themselves or have become
rather slow or are not reliable enough or... (fill in other probable reasons),
so you have to go and PAY for the promotion of mp3s and that means, you have
to have a regular income and quite a bit of what is called idealism to maintain
a label on the web.<br>
I don't know what experiences other administrators/webmasters make with
CD/CD-R sales, the risk is quite low of course if you just produce on demand,
but usually I don't believe it will purvey enough money to pay the artists
AND balance the losses caused by webspace payment, not to speak about the
time people invest in caring and updating the pages.<br>
I have the impression, that everyone who sees the necessity to finally BUY
CD-Rs from weblabels drives one label him/herself, what most times ends up
in CD-R exchange rather than sales that bring money into my pocket. <br>
To cut a long story short: Keeping up a weblabel is no business, it's more
or less networking, building up a community and having fun with likeminded
people.<br>
<br>
Store<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.retinascan.de";>http://www.retinascan.de</a><br>
<br>
<br>
Stasisfield.com schrieb:<br>
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<span class="moz-txt-tag">-- <br>
</span>just wanted to chime in on this thread...so far, i've been paying
for my server space (and bandwidth, which is a larger consideration than
i had originally expected).<br>
<br>
when i first began stasisfield, my main concern was finding an isp that would
give me as much server space as possible for the least amount of money. i
was lucky enough to find a host that offered *unlimited* storage for a fairly
reasonable price. however, i didn't realize that their bandwidth allotments
weren't quite large enough for my needs--the day i launched the site and
announced it to several lists, it immediately went down and stayed down for
a week until i caved and purchased a bandwidth upgrade, which has effectively
doubled my annual hosting fee.<br>
<br>
luckily, a friend of mine has been able to help out with an additional (so
far free) server, which some of stasisfield's releases have been hosted on
in order to ease the bandwidth burden. for now, this has worked out very
nicely (altho it would sure be nice to either find enough *free* server space
+ bandwidth -- or sell quite a few more CD-Rs to make up at least part of
the current server costs!).<br>
<br>
as for the effectiveness of a domain name, i pretty much saw it as a necessity,
since it helps reinforce the label's name and makes it easier for people to
find it online (then again, i spent 6 years designing web sites for a living
and was indoctrinated into the "e-business" culture, which i'm sure has sufficiently
twisted my view of this somewhat <img
src="chrome://editor/content/images/wink_n.gif" alt=";-)"
class="moz-txt-smily" height="19" width="19" align="middle">
<br>
<br>
A concise, easy-to-spell name seems to be the best way to go. i thought i
had done that with "stasisfield", however i've come across several creative
misspellings of it online ("statisfield", "statsfield," and my personal favorite,
"satisfied").<br>
<br>
i definitely feel the site so far has been a "success", since it has a steady
stream of visitors--not a huge number, but extremely steady. and that's what
makes all the money, time and effort worth it: knowing that the music i'm
promoting is actually getting listened to by an audience who appreciates it.<br>
<br>
<br>
john<br>
<br>
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