Exactly an year ago, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launched a free web hosting service called OpenServing that offered unlimited storage space and bandwidth for your websites. You could also integrate Google AdSense into your wiki pages and get 100% of the ad revenue.
Since Wikia was willing to pay all your software and web hosting bills, this announcement did pick lot of steam but is the OpenServing project still alive ?
Compete data suggests that OpenServing gets no traffic while Google bots cannot find a single wiki website that is hosted on OpenServing. So did Wikia ever open the site for public ?
When you open an account on OpenServing, you get an auto-reply that “Our team will create your openserving account soon” but that’s all.
The chances therefore seem high that Wikia may have scrapped all plans to launch OpenServing. Competitors like Wetpaint do offer free Wikis but they do not share the ad revenues.
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Reader Comments
Jimmy Wales and Wiki
please don’t give up on the small guy.
Openserving
is our only way out from these
media corporate giants who keep
all the ad revenue.
Fellas from Wiki
I’m begging you
on my begging knees
do not give up on Openserving
we need all the help we can get.
Written by Steve Real on 02.05.08