Hosting is cheap. Well, cheap hosting is cheap.

I don’t say that to insult any of the many fine-hosting providers we have in this industry. They’ll tell you that a good listing for a gallery or site link can eat the allotted, monthly transfer of a junior virtual account within a day. It’s not your host’s fault. It your fault because you’re so fucking brilliant at page design but not so great at math.

"Almost anywhere you look, you'll find an affiliate program that offers some kind of free hosting."

Let’s say you build a gallery and that gallery gets listed on Shemp.Com, PersianKitty’s TGP and Richard’s realm. Sure, that one thumbnail page is only 120 Kilobytes but each one of those 16 full-size pics -linked to by thumb- are 150 kilobytes each. So when one surfer views the entire contents of your gallery, they use 2400 kilobytes of your transfer limit. That’s more than two megabytes of transfer per surfer.

Your virtual account limits you to 25 gigabytes of transfer a month. Now, what happens when your receives gets over ten thousand visits from those sweet TGP listings in just 24 hours?

Overage charges are a bitch. You can pay more for a bigger limit per month. You can reduce the size of your image files. You can cut out submitting galleries to one or more of those sweet TGPs.

If only there were a way to get hosting without having to pay for a bigger pipe. If only there were people who wanted your galleries and sites and traffic so much they’d give it to you for no cost. If only free adult hosting weren’t as dead as the proverbial doornail.

Ta Da! Out of the ashes flies a rising beacon of hope? What is it? Is it a bird, a plane? No! It’s the new-and-improved free adult host!

What’s that, you say? Free adult hosting is so nineties! Nobody likes free hosts anymore. Besides, there aren’t any free adult hosts. They went the way of the dinosaur.

Not true. Free adult web hosts are still around. There’s VERSION 1.0 providers like PornCity. They still offer free hosting to new webmasters, just not very often.

However, there’s a new kind of free adult host. Call them VERSION 2.0, if you will. They’re always around. They give you unlimited bandwidth, storage and transfer and they absolutely love it when your site or gallery gets hit with mondo traffic. Hell, most of them even give you site content and all of it for zero nickels.

Who are these wonderful Phoenixes? Where are they? Is this a hoax or have free adult hosts really come back from the dead?

Here are your answers:

Free adult hosting never died. It’s still around but there’s a new mutation that’s better and bannerless.

You can find them listed on almost any adult webmaster resource site like Cozy Frog.

These Phoenixes are your friendly, neighborhood adult sponsors.

Almost anywhere you look, you’ll find an affiliate program that offers some kind of free hosting. Some will provide FHG’s or free hosted galleries. Others provide free-hosted image galleries and free-hosted video clip galleries. There are sponsors that will host your affiliate adult toy store. Still more allow you to build an entire TGP, filled with their content and server off of their hosting. There are sponsors that will let you build and promote entire sites on their hosting dime and not intrude with one single ad banner.

What’s the catch? That’s easy. If you want the free hosting, you have to abide by the rules of your sponsor. Only use the server space to advertise their programs and services. Don’t use illegal content or links and don’t spam.

There are drawbacks to free sponsor hosting. It’s next to impossible to get a sponsor gallery listed on a TGP. Many link sites won’t list your free page if it only has sponsor-hosted content. Just the same, for the price, free adult host Version 2.0 is pretty nice.

If you got so few pennies you can’t even pinch, free hosting in any form is handy. Whether it’s free-hosted galleries or video clips or fake TGPs. The more stuff you put on the net, the more chance you have to make a sale. Free hosting isn’t dead; it’s just reborn.