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11-17-2008, 05:39 PM
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#1 | | Teching In
Join Date: Dec 2007
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|  I started a company!
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11-17-2008, 05:41 PM
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#2 | | TECH Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Trenton, NJ
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That's great you have your own business, but expect this thread to be closed very shortly.
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11-17-2008, 05:43 PM
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#3 | | Teching In
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where should this have been posted? I wouldnt consider this spam honestly. Im a real person, not a bot, and I am trying to help people with there site, as well as get my company started. | |
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11-17-2008, 05:46 PM
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#4 | | SSU, come over and relax
Join Date: May 2005 Location: San Antonio/Raleigh
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if you are not a paying sponsor you are not allowed to post an ad like this | |
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11-17-2008, 05:47 PM
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#5 | | Teching In
Join Date: Dec 2007
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I suppose that makes sense. sorry | |
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11-17-2008, 05:54 PM
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#6 | | Staging Lane
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: NJ
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Just a piece of advise, don't bother advertising online unless you plan on spending a ton of money. My friend owns a web hosting company. His second one actually, since he sold his first one. Owns all of his own servers in multiple datacenters. He didn't make money from getting customers online. All of his advertising was local. There are plenty of ways to make flyers, do direct mail marketing, etc, which is a lot cheaper than online advertising. And looking at your rank on Alexa.com, you aren't exactly too high up there with traffic.
I also own a computer business and concluded the same thing my friend learned about his web hosting. Start off trying to get local business.
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11-17-2008, 05:59 PM
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#7 | | Staging Lane
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: NJ
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Oh, and you might want to think twice about offering "unlimited" anything. It only takes one dick head to take down your servers. I mean, I have literally terrabytes of data on my servers. What if I decided to just upload constantly all of my data over and over again? And considering how much bandwidth I have for uploading, I could definitely have some fun. Not that I or anyone else would ever think to take advantage of "unlimited." | |
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11-17-2008, 06:13 PM
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#8 | | Teching In
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Originally Posted by kapsz28  Oh, and you might want to think twice about offering "unlimited" anything. It only takes one dick head to take down your servers. I mean, I have literally terrabytes of data on my servers. What if I decided to just upload constantly all of my data over and over again? And considering how much bandwidth I have for uploading, I could definitely have some fun. Not that I or anyone else would ever think to take advantage of "unlimited." | Thats what a TOS is for, I doubt you have terrabytes of legal data. Quote:
Originally Posted by kapsz28 Just a piece of advise, don't bother advertising online unless you plan on spending a ton of money. My friend owns a web hosting company. His second one actually, since he sold his first one. Owns all of his own servers in multiple datacenters. He didn't make money from getting customers online. All of his advertising was local. There are plenty of ways to make flyers, do direct mail marketing, etc, which is a lot cheaper than online advertising. And looking at your rank on Alexa.com, you aren't exactly too high up there with traffic.
I also own a computer business and concluded the same thing my friend learned about his web hosting. Start off trying to get local business. | I dont have high traffic, thus "I started a company", I dont get instant traffic. | |
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11-17-2008, 06:46 PM
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#9 | | Staging Lane
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: NJ
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Originally Posted by crazyfast Thats what a TOS is for, I doubt you have terrabytes of legal data.
Haha, I hope you are joking. You do realize that it is perfectly legal to back up your DVDs and CDs to a home server, right? I have ten 1TB hard drives running in raid 6 currently. And this is only an example. If you are paying $1,000 a month for your connection, then you don't have a ton of bandwidth to spare if a lot of people decided to take full advantage of "unlimited." And if you would like me to prove that to you, I have no problem getting a huge group a computer people to show you just how much bandwidth can be used up in a month.
I dont have high traffic, thus "I started a company", I dont get instant traffic. | I am just trying to give you advise from experience and people I know. My friend who is on his second web hosting company pays about $15k a month, and makes a profit, but still not enough to live off of. And like I said, he does not advertise online. He tried that route, and it lead nowhere.
There are too many web hosting companies, and other providers that offer free web hosting or free storage in large amounts. How do you plan on competing against them especially when it comes to advertising? You spend $1,000 a month for a connection and make $100 back. Let me know when you are spending twice that on advertising just to get traffic to your site. Then maybe you will understand that it takes a lot of money to advertise something online especially in a saturated market like web hosting. | |
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11-17-2008, 06:49 PM
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#10 | | Launching!
Join Date: Apr 2008
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Man I'd be careful with that unlimited offer as others have said. I could sign my dad's company up with you, dump 80 years worth of scanned files onto your computer. As it stands right now my father wanted a high resolution copy of every work order, every sales slip, everything going to the company founding. I toss them up, index them in a database, toss them behind a https login and tell my dad "Hey you can log in from anywhere to get any file".
Then in a month I decide "Hey I should OCR all those documents" and write a little script so that my dad's local server loads each image, OCRs it, then dumps the OCR output on your server.
Your servers would feel the pain, trust me. | |
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11-17-2008, 06:57 PM
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#11 | | Staging Lane
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: NJ
Posts: 98
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My bad, I knew I should have checked before I wasted my time. This is just a scam.
WHOIS information. Claiming to use Level 3 because of their name? Talk about BS. I hope nobody tried signing up. Better get rid of those credit cards. And someone give me his IP address.
Domain Name:amphosted.com
Record created:2008/8/8
Record expired:2009/8/8
Domain servers in listed order:
ns1.matthouse.us ns2.matthouse.us
Administrat:
name-- DNS MANAGER
org-- ABSOLUTEE CORP. LTD.
country-- CN
province-- Hongkong
city-- Hongkong
address-- FLAT/RM B 8/F CHONG MING BUILDING 72 CHEUNG SHA WAN RD KL
postalcode-- 999077
telephone-- +00.85223192933
fax-- +00.85223195168
E-mail-- am3367673237801@absolutee.com
Technical Contact:
name-- DNS MANAGER
org-- ABSOLUTEE CORP. LTD.
country-- CN
province-- Hongkong
city-- Hongkong
address-- FLAT/RM B 8/F CHONG MING BUILDING 72 CHEUNG SHA WAN RD KL
postalcode-- 999077
telephone-- +00.85223192933
fax-- +00.85223195168
E-mail-- am3367673108502@absolutee.com
Billing Contact:
name-- DNS MANAGER
org-- ABSOLUTEE CORP. LTD.
country-- CN
province-- Hongkong
city-- Hongkong
address-- FLAT/RM B 8/F CHONG MING BUILDING 72 CHEUNG SHA WAN RD KL
postalcode-- 999077
telephone-- +00.85223192933
fax-- +00.85223195168
E-mail-- am3367673108503@absolutee.com
Registrant Contact:
name-- DNS MANAGER
org-- ABSOLUTEE CORP. LTD.
country-- CN
province-- Hongkong
city-- Hongkong
address-- FLAT/RM B 8/F CHONG MING BUILDING 72 CHEUNG SHA WAN RD KL
postalcode-- 999077
telephone-- +00.85223192933
fax-- +00.85223195168
E-mail-- am3367673433404@absolutee.com | |
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11-17-2008, 07:01 PM
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#12 | | Launching!
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 286
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Pretty smart scam too. Registered the account here awhile back as a trojan so he'd look more legit since the account is 11 months old. | |
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11-17-2008, 07:06 PM
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#13 | | Staging Lane
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: NJ
Posts: 98
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Ever hear of Malta? I had to look it up and I still don't know what kind of country it is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta | |
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11-17-2008, 07:16 PM
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#14 | | Teching In
Join Date: Dec 2007
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How is this a scam? What what kind of scam uses third party payment processors?
The server is on theplanet.com, check them out. | |
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11-17-2008, 07:19 PM
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#15 | | Teching In
Join Date: Dec 2007
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WAIT! no no no, I see what you did! lol.
The AmpHosted.com website is hosted via matthouse.us, which is a server my friend Phil owns, MY sites are ran on a server from theplanet.com
The IP is 74.55.90.58. Reason that amphosted.com is located on a third party server is mostly support issues. If amphosted.com is located on the same server that the sites are on, and it crashes, then how will people send in support tickets? if the mysql system gets corrupt, how do the payments get processed?
Also, the accounts on 74.55.90.58 backup the accounts to the server that amphosted.com is hosted on.
Sorry for any confusion | |
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11-17-2008, 07:21 PM
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#16 | | Teching In
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Originally Posted by 05CherryGXP Pretty smart scam too. Registered the account here awhile back as a trojan so he'd look more legit since the account is 11 months old. | Posts from 11 months ago were not a trogan, genius, Thats when I looked into purchasing the GTM, I looked into it more and realized that I cant build one for less than 50k, and thats pushing it, I decided I would wait longer | |
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11-17-2008, 07:24 PM
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#17 | | Haterator
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North Jersey
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Scam or not, this thread is spam.
If you're interested in advertising, please speak with the forum administrators. | |
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