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  1. #16
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    Perhaps you many want to read the whole article, including this important update at the very bottom

    "Update: 2005-02-26
    After extensive pressure, MCI finally relented and let go of send-safe.com."

    Perhaps MCI did turn a blind eye to their customer who in turn was hosting the illegal spam operation but they did not do so for long under pressure from the Internet community. I also know from experience that unless you are paying MCI a cool 5 million to turn a blind eye you can forget about escaping their UCE policy and they have one of the toughest enforcement teams out there among bandwidth providers. It works like this,

    1. You or one of your hosted customers sends spam
    2. that spam is reported to spamhaus.org spamcop.net and many other anti-spam blacklisting organizations.
    3. Those organizations place your hosting company email server on their blacklist of IP's (most of the time without any research to validate the claim)
    4. Thousands of ISP and hosting companies subscribe to these blacklisting services and their databases on their email servers automatically block ALL email coming from an IP address on the blacklist
    5. Even if you convice these organizations to remove your email server IP address from their master blacklist databases (the process usually takes several days and much staff time) those that subscribe to the list may or may not drop your IP from their list after the update. In other words, your IP address may be stuck on major ISP blacklists for months, years! (Think AOL, Earthlink, and other large ISPs blocking email from your servers forever and how your hosting customers will respond to that).
    6. You as the hosting company may receive an email from these organizations if you are subscribed and/or have an abuse@yourcompany address registered with them warning about the reported spam.
    7. Your bandwidth provider (or reseller company) will most definitely receive a report and they will then in turn send you a very strong warning to remove the offending spammer immeadiately or risk having your ENTIRE OPERATIONAL BANDWIDTH connection suspended until you comply. That means ALL of your hosted customer sites are down, no email, no site, no business.

    That is the way it works my black hat friend so you will have to learn to play by the rules, work hard and smart and earn your customers trust before you can do business with them and expect them to be loyal to your brand. I have been in the hosting industry nearly 10 years now and have seen so many young hosting startups fail right out of the gate because they attempted to bend the rules and went on a spaming spree. Never have I seen any successful companies use such tactics and I know ours certainly would never even consider it. Sure it may be tempting, but the risk is too high and a hosting company who spams or permits spam on their servers will fail unless you have many millions to pay off your upstream provider or you are the upstream provider. Even then, public pressure, lawsuits and business appearance in the marketplace will cause you to rethink your ways such as MCI had to do!

    Best Wishes for a .Net Spam Free Success!

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    Two part message, first to Rudy:
    I am in agreement with 1PlanHost, that you should revamp your website. It needs a more professional look. Too many hosting companies use templates that can been seen site after site. I too started this way (2 different ones), but ended up designing my own and integrating the whoiscart into it. I would remove "About the founder" link on the home page and make an "about us" page. "About the founder" could be more appropriately placed in the web design section, with a link to the site and a comment about how that site came into being. I would check out some other hosting sites and view their terms of service. Check out some of the uptime guarantees also. Most downtime is prorated, not 1 month full refund!! You may want to include something about the data center. People like to know what data center their sites are hosted with. And lastly, paying up front for 1 year of hosting is not always the way one wants to go. It is much easier to try a new host for one month, 3 months...If they like the support and service they are receiving, then maybe they will upgrade or pay yearly, especially if the hosting company has yet to prove themselves.

    Secondly, to Sandrodz:
    Colors do say a lot. The red works in the main body, but not in the navigation menus. The red letters can't be seen properly. I would change the background color of the main body to white, to give it a cleaner look and somehow think about ridding it of so much empty space. Maybe a third column for the table to put the google ads into would balance it out a bit more, or better yet, remove the one you have there now. Are your selling hosting for you or someone else. You want to keep the potential clients at your site, not send them to someone else. Just my opinion.

    Your faq page says "Can I host a porn site with you?
    Yes you can host pornography on our servers."
    Your free hosting tos says "2) Pornographic, obscene, nude, graphically violent, and other inappropriate content is strictly prohibited."
    If this is related to paid and free hosting, change the faq. If this is related to free hosting only, change the faq to say so.

    Links to order paid hosting do not work!!!
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  3. #18
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    Quote Originally Posted by country-tyme
    Are your selling hosting for you or someone else. You want to keep the potential clients at your site, not send them to someone else. Just my opinion.

    Links to order paid hosting do not work!!!
    Nice post Country-Tyme ! Agreed that if you want to establish a hosting business then by all means do not link to other hosting sites and send your potential customers elsewhere. While you may make a few dollars off of affiliate links and AdSense, it will not increase your customer base and public image.

    Best Wishes for a .Net Success!

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    Nice article, with the reference of this article,

    I have a very perfect domain for starting a large hosting company. this is CADHOST.COM , domain is older than other leading hosting companies like bluehost, hostgator etc. Please visit the site for further details.

    Brokers may also contact and can have 5%

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    I just been away from my notebook then I saw a long queue of reply at here. Sound amazing from 1plan advise, thanks for sharing. Is that possible for you to share more about business with me , looking forward to hear from you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rudy View Post
    I have also added an affiliate program, where users can fill out an email form, and earn $5 for every person who they refer and signs up.
    If this is only for people that sign up without buying ... then it is ok. If the visitor needs also to buy then the commission is quite poor considering that other host company start from 50$
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    Thanks for sharing this valuable information.

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    To get more customer , you need more awareness with marketing while web hosting is real competitive business in online.
    Your service need to appear in web hosting review & directories sites. It help you to get more quality traffic which might convert into sales.
    You might need addon value with your hosting package to make it unique . Market your USP why your hosting is different from others.

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    The most important things to keep in mind when creating a web hosting company are your expenses and the time you need to spend on each client. You need to have a back-end that will allow you a lot of room for markup and profit. You also need a back-end that will allow easy client sign-up, with minimal work on your part. This is why I recommend you use a reseller hosting package. You do not need to invest in expensive servers. You do not need to monitor them for down-time and risk losing all your clients if something on your server breaks on Friday night and you fix it on Monday or Tuesday. You do not need to buy expensive cPanel licensing (you are saving $450 per year just on that) and all other software. I suggest using HostGator’s Reseller Hosting, that comes with already prepackaged cPanel, WHMCS client billing software, Fantastico and much more. In case you don’t know what WHMCS is, it’s the all-in-one client billing/support software. It allows you to create invoices, subscriptions, and even has a great built in support ticket system. You get it for free with HostGator reseller hosting, which I think is pretty hard to beat. You can use coupon 25PERCENTSALE to get 25% off your order.

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