ROFL! I don't know why you have trouble grasping simple history but if you want
to be a moron and choose not to believe the truth, that's your own choice but
I will still answer your questions anyway ...
hanz said:
So you want to say that you started free email service just few months after hotmail? Somehow I don't believe you.
What exactly does Hotmail have to do with anything? During that period of time,
the free mail service providers outnumbered the free hosting providers roughly
about 10 to 1 and Hotmail was not the only free mail provider nor were they
the first either. Hundreds if not thousands of free mail service providers came
along long before Hotmail and many of them are still around today too.
hanz said:
If you really started so long time ago then why is your host still so small and unknown (I think you must be the first free host)?
I NEVER SAID THAT WE WERE THE FIRST FREE HOST!
I simply said that we are the only host that STILL REMAINS from the time period back
when we first opened. Back in 1997, there were roughly about 50 other free hosts and
over the years each of those has folded one be one. I could be wrong but I think we
are now the only one that still remains. Most of those started failing around 2001.
Incidentally, we can claim first on one thing though and that is the concept of
"posting for hosting" as we were the very first host to do that and it is probably that
very difference that kept us open and viable while the others are now all
gone and history! It was created mainly as a population control.
Since you brought up the subject of size, we currently host 27,414 free web sites
and 839,582 paid sites as of this very moment not counting any reseller sites and
those figures are live and will probably change slightly before I finish this sentence.
Our hosting and support staff is deployed on 3 continents and we operate from 7
interconnected data centers that is a mix of locations that we own directly combined
with rented network space from third party networks in other locations. All of those are
interconnected into a common redundant super network to give full stable, fast,
reliable coverage worldwide.
I am guessing that you are one of those odd ball types who takes a quick look at
the forum community to try to guess the size of the host --- bad move! To keep content
fresh, our forum community automatically prunes any posts older than 8 months.
Non-posting and inactive forum members are completely hidden from view and
not included in the member totals so that the memberlist only contains actual
active participating members. Dead members are deleted from the community daily.
To appear on the memberlist, a member has to be active on the forum community
within the past six months and has to make at least 1 post with a minimum post length.
hanz said:
And why can not you offer free email service anymore?
We didn't discontinue our free email service because we had to. We discontinued
it because our free hosting service began providing free email accounts and having
the separate independant free mail service was just plain redundant.
And if you own "so big" host then how do you still have time to come here and post?
What is it about people that they assume if you own a company, you must be
someone big, famous, and untouchable? True, I do not have the time to be on here
all the time but I do like to personally get on once or twice a day for just a little while
to keep up with things and answer any questions anyone has about our company.
The rest of the time this forum login is monitored by our support staff members.
hanz said:
BTW cybertoad.net has never been free host
ROFL! On the contrary, CYBEROTAD.NET provided free email from
November 1996 through March 1998 and free web hosting services from
March 1998 through November 1999 and was actually one of our more
popular brand names hosting over 500 free web sites which doesn't
sound like much but was huge for that particular time in web history.
In November 1999, our registrar screwed up during processing a renewal and
locked both us and themselves out of the domain. We finally got the domain back
about 2 months later but by that time, we were already using a new domain name
on our services so cybertoad.net was used for a different purpose and re-launched
as a new paid hosting brand for us.
To sparkypsyco, I appologize for hijaaking the thread by answering all of hanz's
severely off topic questions. I generally don't like to get off topic but when someone
asks me questions directly, I usually try to give them the courtesy and take time
to answer all of their questions ... 
