famousmales.com hosting partner programme

 
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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