Our problem:
We need more and more server space for
ever expanding collection of male celebrity pictures.
Your problem:
You've got servers
with excess space and bandwidth going to
waste.
The solution:
Give us your space. We fill it with famous males. Viewers round the world
drool more and you get some free advertising.
Since our site began, our major problem has always been one of
bandwidth. As one of our major plus points is that the galleries are
free to view for everyone, we often get high traffic. When something
'special' happens (like Kevin Bishop being asked in Attitude magazine
about his pictures on famousmales.com) then that can turn into very high
traffic. In the past this has crippled us with galleries, and sometimes
even the site, falling over.. often for days on end.
We're more or less over these problems
now (it's only taken 10 years!) and one of the major factors in this
recovery is the success of our Hosting Partner Programme. The basis of
this is that we spread the load on the galleries by letting different
people and companies host them. And by giving our host partners free
advertising on the pages that hold 'their' pictures.. everyone's a
winner.
We have now secured some ultra reliable
hosting for ourselves, so as a rough average we host half the galleries
on famousmales.com servers and host half on our partners servers. The
programme was launched in 2004 and many of the partners that signed up
at the start are still here hosting galleries today.
On average we add 4 new famous males to the site each month, plus we
still have over 80 of our old galleries still on dead tripod webspace.
We've moved many of these old galleries to new space over the past
couple of months and our aim is to have zero dead links by April 2008.
If you're interested in
joining the famousmales.com family (gag! I can't believe I typed that!)
then read on for details.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
- YOUR OWN (i.e. PAID-FOR)
HOSTING OR SERVER
Please don't contact us recommending free space you've seen
somewhere on the net. We're looking for people or companies with servers or
direct access to servers. The free webspace you get with your internet
account is no good.. it needs to be professional, purchased space.
- HOSTING ENABLED TO HOST IMAGES
FOR REMOTE LINKING
Only the images and thumbnail images will be hosted on your space.
The gallery HTML will be hosted on famousmales.com - so the images must be
enabled to
be remote linked from our site.
- CAPABLE OF
SUSTAINING LARGE BANDWIDTH DRAIN
We're talking over 100,000
visitors a month. If we put a new, big-name famous male on your
space then those 100,000 will be downloading your bandwidth. If your
space is going to shut down for the day after the first 5Gb is used
up then it's no use to us.
- APPROX 100MB
WEBSPACE MINIMUM
On average each male has 2-3 pages of images
(although some have much, much more) at 20 images per page. We
currently allow our partners to host a maximum of 10 male celebs..
so we aren't reliant too much on a single host. If we filled your
quota we estimate a maximum space of 80-100Mb.
- FTP ACCESS
We need access via FTP to upload our pics
and a subdomain or other specific URL at which they can be viewed.
It is possible to work with you without FTP access but this means
emailing folders of pictures and thumbnails for you to upload so
we'd prefer not to work this way if possible. But we never say
never.
- FREE OF CHARGE
You provide the space and bandwidth for free. In return you get some
free advertising. The space you offer must be totally free - we are
not interested in any "free under a certain Gb limit then £££"
offers.
Free. Gratis. Complimentary.
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU IN
RETURN:
- FREE ADVERTISING SPACE
All our hosting partners get free advertising on famousmales.com for
the duration of the partnership.
We offer you a standard ad graphic of 125(W) x 60(H) pixels on the welcome page
and
also an ad graphic of 234 X 60 pixels on each page containing images you host.
This could bear the slogan "this gallery sponsored by" and then your
graphic and a link to your site.
If you're in the right 'market' then this is a great offer. We
believe famousmales.com is the world's number one male celebrity
site. It is certainly the UK's number one and definitely in the
world's top 5. We are frequently referenced in Attitude (the UK's
premier gay lifestyle magazine) and have in the past been featured
on national TV in the UK and in the national tabloid press. 2007 was
a tremendous year for the site - nominated for an international
cybersocket award "best celebrity site" and won 4th place in
Attitude's Class of 2007 - Best Website awards.
For your ad, all we ask is that the graphics are not 'hardcore' if
your site is an adult one and that you are linking directly to your
site and not through any affiliate service link.
All advertising offered is on famousmales.com. Our message-board
site fmforums.co.uk is not included in our hosting partner
programme.
- THE ABILITY TO
CHOOSE YOUR FAVOURITE MALES
If you wish, you can specify which male
celebs galleries you would like to
host. If they are still available we will endeavour to meet your
request. This enables you to target traffic to your site based on the
type of male (eg footballers to a football site).
- A WARM GLOW
You'll be helping the world's premier and most respected male celeb
site stay on the air.
WE DO NOT SELL ADVERTISING SPACE ON
THE SITE. THE ONLY WAY TO GET YOUR AD ON FAMOUSMALES.COM IS THROUGH OUR PARTNERSHIP
PROGRAMME OR THROUGH A RECOGNISED AFFILIATE SCHEME SUCH AS TRADEDOUBLER.
If you've read all the
above and are still interested, or
require further information.. please
CLICK HERE and get in touch.

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