Spiels and Deals
I’m talking about (and pushing) Hosting.com Black Friday deals on web hosting plans because 1) They offer unbelievable pricing on a bulletproof service, and 2) They’re a major reason – along with (always free) subscriptions – that there are never paywalls in The RGG.
By John G. Stamos
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Make Hay While the Sun Shines
Are you distracted by this Hosting.com advertisement? The one just north of the words you’re currently reading? I hope not. It’s there because it, and others like it, ensure that the publishing activities of The RGG continue. Hosting.com is one of this publication’s affiliate partners.* If a particular RGG visitor decides that he or she wants a new website of their very own, or wants to move an existing website to a new hosting platform, and then clicks on the link and subsequently gets started with a Hosting.com plan to host their site, then The RGG makes a few bucks. Additionally, The RGG maintains affiliate partnerships with Amazon, SeedsNow, and Bluehost. (If you’re an RGG subscriber or regular reader, you’ve seen the banners for these companies and you’ve read the disclosure language present in every published RGG piece.) These affiliate partnerships, and the corresponding clickable, linked banners that take readers to our partners’ products and offerings, represent The RGG’s means of revenue generation. They’re a fundamental reason we’re able to continue publishing content here.
Hosting.com Black Friday deals make for a timely RGG revenue stream opportunity. More importantly, they also give potential new or existing website owners the opportunity to obtain a peerless product (and all of its associated services, etc.) for a remarkable price. More on that later.
*Note: The RGG resides on one of Hosting.com’s insanely fast, hugely powerful dedicated servers. So yes, we here at The RGG are, of course, highly satisfied Hosting.com customers.
No RGG Paywalls or Subscription Requirements. Ever.
I really do hope that you, as readers, subscribers, or potential subscribers, aren’t annoyed by The RGG’s use of affiliate marketing as its business model. At least I hope you’re not as annoyed as you might be if you had to pay to read or continue reading something you thought you might like to read or continue reading. Or as annoyed as you might be if the only way you could read or finish reading something cool and interesting was by subscribing to the digital outlet that ran it. For me, that kind of thing is infinitely more irritating than the presence of a little advertising on a page of something I’m reading and really digging. When you’re checking out The RGG, you’ll immediately note that there are no paywalls or subscription requirements that impede your access to its content. And readers will never see a message along the lines of “Jane Doe’s work is free today, but she’d really appreciate it if you’d shove your miserable hand into your pocket, pull out a bunch of those dollars that she knows are there, think of someone other than yourself for a change, and give them to her. So click the button and pay up, you cheap sonofabitch.” You get my drift, and you can rest assured there’s none of that going on in The RGG.
The only evidence that The RGG needs to make a buck or two in order to stay afloat comes in the form of the ads that show up (in what we hope is not terribly obtrusive or distracting fashion) on the pages of the publication’s reading material. Those ads don’t keep anyone from reading what they want to read, and they might even offer readers a convenient way to buy something they want or need. The way I see it, it’s a win-win-win: RGG readers and subscribers can read whatever they want whenever they want totally free of charge, they might find a product or two that interests them when they visit, and they’ll never need to feel even the slightest bit guilty about not forking over any dough. Easy peasy.
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Why RGG Subscriptions (Which Are Always Free) Matter: AI’s Uncanny and Unwanted Impact
The use of AI figures huge in all things internet. AI agents go to work, often at the request or direction of human internet surfers, gleaning info from websites and returning with synopses or summaries of content they find. Search engines and their corresponding browsers provide AI overviews to human web surfers in response to their search queries, short-circuiting the need for those web surfers to actually visit the website or publication from which the info they’re looking for originates. As a result of these emerging AI-generated phenomena, the number of visitors to a given website (including publications like The RGG) has dramatically decreased. Of course, digital publications can mitigate the dampening effects of AI overviews, etc. on visitor numbers by diversifying the nature of their written content offerings. For example, if a person wants to read, in its entirety, a work of fiction, an essay, or a substantive poem on the internet, they’ll need to visit its source to do it. Websites publishing this kind of work may potentially fare better in terms of visitor numbers than sites featuring only informational articles.
But the best and most direct way a website or digital publication can be guaranteed visitors – and resulting pageviews – is through subscriptions. The RGG offers only free subscriptions, and a simple way to get them. Large, clickable subscription boxes appear on every page of the publication. To subscribe, a visitor needs only to click on one of them and follow the simple directions. The subscription process is easy, totally private, and completely secure. When readers and visitors become RGG subscribers, they’ll get every new published RGG piece and the monthly RGG Newsletter delivered directly to their email inboxes. And did I mention that the subscriptions are free? Yes I did. But I’ll tell you again: RGG SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE ALWAYS FREE.
Get great stuff to read delivered to your email for free AND help The RGG overcome the very real ravages of AI. If you’re not already a subscriber, why not become one? What have you got to lose?
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Oh, Those Hosting.com Black Friday Deals...
They’re here, alright. Great pricing, available through November 30th, on web hosting plans from the first name in super-secure, lightning-fast, ultra-powerful servers and VPS plans and systems. My goal in this article isn’t to catalog every single benefit and nuance of a Hosting.com web hosting plan, but rather to direct you to the Hosting.com team themselves so that they can dial you in to all the info you need to make a hosting decision for your own site or publication. If you’re looking for a more detailed chronicling of The RGG’s experience as a Hosting.com customer, along with a lot more detail concerning the remarkable hardware intricacies of Hosting.com’s powerful servers and corresponding optimizing software and plugins, please feel free to read my 2024 article, “How Good Is Hosting.com?”.
But right here, in this article, you can make the learning process even easier on yourself: if you want to find out more about Hosting.com’s Black Friday deals and get the full rundown on this excellent hosting company’s full range of unsurpassed capabilities and products, all you need to do is click on any of the Hosting.com Black Friday Deals banners. You’ll get a ton of info on the products, the company, and the deals, plus a number of options for contacting Hosting.com directly with any and all questions you might have. The banners are here, mes amis, so click away.
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John Stamos is a writer and is co-publisher of The Renaissance Garden Guy. His work has appeared in a number of publications including, most recently, A Man for Some Seasons, Splice Today, and, of course, The Renaissance Garden Guy. He is married to his multitalented sweetheart, the mycologist and writer Ann Simpson-Stamos.
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