When Hosting Became Business, Creativity Was Buried

I run a website called dexteritycoder.com, which is hosted on Hostinger’s servers. I purchased a Premium Hosting Plan to bring my site to the internet.

My Story

I bought the premium hosting plan for around ₹2900 per year. I expected that within a year, I would earn back more than what I spent and then renew my subscription. But as we all know, nothing ever goes exactly as expected — the real-world algorithm is far more complex than any computer algorithm.

So, I kept pushing content on my website — articles, blogs, projects with source code, portfolio pieces, and tutorials. But my site took nearly 8–9 months just to get indexed once. That completely shattered my expectations. I never imagined that indexing could take so many months.

And now, after all that hard work, when my site has finally gone live on the internet after 8–9 months of effort, it’s on the verge of dying — because I don’t have enough money to renew my hosting plan.

I’m currently looking for any fundraiser or help that could keep my site alive. I’ve created multiple gigs on Fiverr to raise funds, but nothing seems to be working. Everything feels like it’s sinking.

I’m genuinely worried because if I quit now, I’ll have to start all over again — from the very beginning — and it will take another 8–9 months for a new site to get recognized.

How Hosting Became business and creaitivity collapsed

After a lot of research, I started wondering how people used to host their websites before hosting providers existed. I found that earlier, people used their own computers as servers, pointing them to public IP addresses to make their websites accessible on the internet.

Back then, people studied networking to host their websites. They shared meaningful and valuable content that genuinely helped others. But now, all of that has turned into a business. People no longer post to help others — they post to please search engines.

Writers today create content for algorithms, not humans. Even the most creative blog can get buried under thousands of similar-looking articles that rank higher simply because of SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

After SEO became mainstream, hosting providers took advantage of people’s needs by offering affordable plans that removed the hassle of server management. But these providers also imposed limitations — they don’t always provide full bandwidth or ranking potential. They promote sites that are SEO-friendly, not necessarily valuable or original.

Now, SEO writing has become its own business. Many so-called SEO writers, who don’t even understand the niche they’re writing about, still manage to rank first on search engines. Meanwhile, people with true creativity are lost in an ocean of keyword-stuffed content.

That’s why we can see Google slowly declining in quality. There was a time when we could find the exact answer to our question within a minute. Now, we’re flooded with optimized articles that rarely deliver real value.

This is how the hosting and SEO business buried creativity — transforming the internet into a place dominated by algorithm-friendly content rather than genuine knowledge sharing.

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