This comes via the Baby Boomer librarian blog written by Bill Drew. Tech Crunch reports that Wikia.com will host free wikis, storage space, server space, bandwidth, applications and computing power "Wikia Announces Free Wiki Hosting."
This free model for one or two Web services has so far proven to be sustainable, but I am skeptical about so many Web services that are potentially beyond the scope of adwords or banner ads being able to generate a profit. If hosting and bandwidth are free, and the user has control over the markup and scripts run in their site, how will the host be able to ensure that its users display advertising. Presumably advertising is the driver for revenue in this model. The article stats that the Wiki Developer only need link back to the Wikia home page and otherwise can control all ad inventory.
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