I need to charge my visitors to view my content. How do I do this?

Question

My site is an educational site for youth coaches. I have a lot of video and video clips. My visitors are burning all of my bandwidth and I need to charge them a little bit to cover these costs. The site is www.coachyourkids.com

Answer 1

There are two ways of doing it, a paid subscription (users pay you a monthly fee to view all the videos they want) and pay-per-view (users pay to view each video). It seems that you already have a PayPal account, so you are set up to accept payments.

Unfortunately, implementing either without a major overhaul of your site is not very likely. Right now, your site is mostly static HTML; it will have to be at least partially rewritten in a server-side scripting language (ASP, JSP, Perl, PHP, Python, etc.) to implement separation of content available for free and paid content.