This was how I started just 5 years ago, with this same question.
Back then, of course, there was still Geocities, and many of the things we take for granted today like cPanel and PHP were just a whole lot less common. (Though PHP was still fairly widespread, not as much in free hosting.)
My service in a nutshell, is really about taking all the fuss out of web hosting. The usual system is:
- Select from hundreds of advertisers and play around with ads.
- Select from thousands of hosts and play around with various failures.
- And then, manage post counts, finance, or whatever else you need to, paying fees to various middlemen and having virtually no negotiating power as a single consumer.
With our service, we already know the best advertising systems (though we do discover more every day) and how to optimize on each, the best places to get hosting, there aren't any middlemen, and we can get really good deals because of the vast number of clients here.
Effectively, once the ads are placed, you are left just with managing your site. You could also choose post to host, or top up the account with funds you can use for anything later.
Last time I posted this question, the requests were pretty simple. cPanel, FTP, PHP, MySQL, - the standard things pretty much every host nowadays offers.
I'm not playing into this 'unlimited' or 'cloud' game that I really feel isn't honest, so please don't ask me for anything unlimited. Our system is upgrade-based. As your website grows, you get upgrades to the next level.
What other things are important to people? I have in mind things like backups, instant server transfers, website reviews... I thought I'd though of everything, but that's never the case.
What else is it that you really like in a web host, which either isn't common or is a must have? Just let me know so I can make sure we include it. Thanks.
Back then, of course, there was still Geocities, and many of the things we take for granted today like cPanel and PHP were just a whole lot less common. (Though PHP was still fairly widespread, not as much in free hosting.)
My service in a nutshell, is really about taking all the fuss out of web hosting. The usual system is:
- Select from hundreds of advertisers and play around with ads.
- Select from thousands of hosts and play around with various failures.
- And then, manage post counts, finance, or whatever else you need to, paying fees to various middlemen and having virtually no negotiating power as a single consumer.
With our service, we already know the best advertising systems (though we do discover more every day) and how to optimize on each, the best places to get hosting, there aren't any middlemen, and we can get really good deals because of the vast number of clients here.
Effectively, once the ads are placed, you are left just with managing your site. You could also choose post to host, or top up the account with funds you can use for anything later.
Last time I posted this question, the requests were pretty simple. cPanel, FTP, PHP, MySQL, - the standard things pretty much every host nowadays offers.
I'm not playing into this 'unlimited' or 'cloud' game that I really feel isn't honest, so please don't ask me for anything unlimited. Our system is upgrade-based. As your website grows, you get upgrades to the next level.
What other things are important to people? I have in mind things like backups, instant server transfers, website reviews... I thought I'd though of everything, but that's never the case.
What else is it that you really like in a web host, which either isn't common or is a must have? Just let me know so I can make sure we include it. Thanks.
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