HostMyThing goes out in fireworks.
Okay, here we go. The word for you is "Enfant Terrible". You're obviously smart with good language command, but I and a few other regulars here are upset to hear this. Why? Because the only use of hiding this big of a back story is that you "wouldn't be taken seriously". Guess what - the inconic price of being an Enfant Terrible is that finally you get a shade too clever for your own good and write yourself into a corner and can't wriggle out again.
The problem you have now is that you have risked your HMT brand name as well. Because whenever Scotts Senior and Junior decide to launch it for real, it's a Cry Wolf scenario. "Really, we're real now! Really we are, pretty please with a cashew on top!".
Oh, do post your report, but I warn you, the tone of what you should submit is probably not what you might be thinking. Skies alive help me if you're submitting portions or even all of this thread as your course materials, because I'm an ex Enfant Terrible myself and now I'm pissed. You deserve TWO grades in your class, a B- for knowledge learned and a Tsunami Grade PowerBomb F for ruthlessly ignoring the ONLY rule I have, which is ... wait for it... be a legit host that lasts longer than 7 months!
You were already down to something like 0.3 out of 2.7 on my rating points scale, or 2.4 out of 2.7 if you want it in penalties up. This note piledrives you into the floor because my "job" in my thread is to *recommend hosts to other people*. There's a REASON I keep saying the 7 month mark is this mysterious threshold. It's because damn near everyone talks various brands of good games for six months, then their operation implodes. Congratulations! Why? Because YOU just became part of the problem! "Anyone" on the techie side can throw up a server and let users pile on data. The hard part is keeping it sustainable, which is restating that 7 month thing again. At least your note counts as "the host closing note", barely, so you avoid that little disgrace.
I started my whole deal PRECISELY for critters like you - fast talking guys like you, who announce "I'm Different. I am ______Host, Come host with meeeeeeeee!!!!". Then _________Reason appears "Oh, sorry, my host isn't up anymore. Bye." The WORST ones then start a NEW venture "Sup Guys? I'm Australopithecus Host! Back to the Basics! Come sign up!". That's where that word Turnover Specialist came about. So help me, don't sink into that.
So I PURPOSELY designed my project to IGNORE all marketing ad copy from hosts, and "give them the benefit of the doubt". Then I just start a timer. And wait. This time it's you. Hi!
Do you have *any idea* how EXHAUSTING it is for users to wade through marketing? Likeable as you are, it is EXACTLY for cases like this. It's a systemic conceptual problem with the Net today. It's Short Attention Span Theater, all This Quarter's Results. Mostly no one has time to follow it all along. So I did. It of course started for myself, but became a service to users overall. They want an easy way to know who's a good bet. My Top Line winners are just that. You (and Flyhost, who has also croaked) are part of the reason I went to the second color for the new entries - because I really am starting to wind this down now. I don't have many more 7-month blocks of patience left. I can bank on any two of my 4 TopHosts and one of the other two to cumulatively last five years. I can bank on 7 years for a Last Man Standing. So my inaugural task is done.
So do please post your report. I gave you the B- on the study side because of all the bumps you had learning. As my FAQ page says, I already bias my grading in favor of hosts at the cost to "dispassionate science", but I still almost had to drop you on the eval side for bad service.
Last thing. The reason you get a Powerbomb F from the project side is that I have lately tried hard to get new hosts to identify in a special "Learning Host" category PRECISELY for cases like you. But no. Your last mistake was you walked right into the trap of putting on Emperor's New Clothes to be ______ Company. Lately some of the regulars here have grown shrill with fatigue, but it's a very real problem. I know lots of clients would host with a Learning Host and take extra measures for data backup. I'm thrilled to have folks learn. Just say it! The meta problem in Free Hosting today is that 75% of hosts who should call themselves Learning are drawn like moths to the Company flame, and like a comet swinging round and round, every X months we get more and more tired of the growing crater of Free Hosting.
So I am sorry to say, HostMyThing is gone from the board. This time I am freezing new entries again. Here is the Sunset Board.
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Your vocab word for the day is Swag.
Your Extra Credit Assignment: Ask your teacher how many copyright violations you are risking by reproducing 1375 Creative Works (posts in the thread) for personal gain (as the lynchpin for receiving a grade) by misleading the Thread Owner and with no notification and much less requesting permission from any of the post owners.
