Jan 5, 2006 : Million Dollar Homepage Reaches Goal

📅 January 5, 2006 - Domain registrar and Web host Sitelutions (sitelutions.com) announced on Thursday that customer The Million Dollar Homepage (milliondollarhomepage.com) is just a few days of reaching its original goal of earning $1 million in advertising.

Twenty-one year old Alex Tew created the site to raise money for his college tuition, selling advertising space in blocks of 100 pixels. By December 31, 2005, Tew had sold 999,000 of his million available pixels at one dollar each. Tew announced on January 1, 2006 he had launched a 10-day eBay auction to sell the remaining 1,000-pixel block.

"We are honored that Alex selected us to host his site," says Paul Singh, assistant director of operations at Sitelutions parent InfoRelay Online Systems. "With so much worldwide coverage, Alex needed a host that could support [the site's] intense bandwidth requirements."

Sitelutions has hosted The Million Dollar Homepage since September 23, 2005, at which point the site had grossed approximately $108,000. Today, the site receives up to 16 million hits per day, 500,000 unique visitors per day, and has used up to 200 megabits per second of Internet bandwidth.

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