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Why did you decide to get into the hosting business?
It seems like new hosts are popping up daily, so competition is always fierce, and a new companies shelf life seems to be getting shorter. So why did you(hosts) personally decide to enter this space, and what has been your biggest challenge(s)? I'm particularly interested in older hosts who've managed to survive so long. Here are some superstars in terms of longevity that I think are on here that it'd be great if they could chim in.
Prometeus 13 years 304 days
InterServer 13 years 33 days
Hostirian 11 years 122 days
Hostfolk 11 years 63 days
Infinitie Networks 8 years 310 days
Comments
We were first a UK ISP called dawnuk.net and were around before unlimited dial-up!
That business became too competitive and we moved out of it and simply stuck around doing web development. A good few years ago with the expertise I had personally it seemed like the right thing to do was offer hosting as we couldn't trust any one else's services.
Unlimited Dial-Up? When, I sware it was always expensive per the minute.
Primary.net (Hostirian Parent) has changed hands a number of times over the years.
I remember it being per hour, and mum and dad limiting our internet usage to an hour and waiting years for downloads to complete.
I still read HostIran, every single time.
@ElliotJ Ahahaha, so do I.
Domain Name: PROMETEUS.COM
Creation Date: 24-may-1997
Expiration Date: 23-may-2016
15 years this month ;-)
Domain Name: IPERWEB.COM
Creation Date: 06-aug-1997
Expiration Date: 05-aug-2016
Domain: prometeus.it
Created: 1997-10-13 00:00:00
Domain Name: PROMETEUS.NET
Creation Date: 08-jul-1998
Expiration Date: 07-jul-2015
Ahhh back when I was a teen my father worked for AOL so we got free dial-up. Those were the days!
rofl welcome to LEB, I guess?
I got into the hosting business because if you're not a provider, you don't get access to the LET Premium Members section.
I got into hosting, so at the age of 12, I could call myself a CEO.
Announcing kbarvps.net.
urbana, IL - hi i'm going to buy some reseller packages and sell them to you guys as a school project. pm for test vps's
ok where's my invite.
Creation Date: 24-may-1997
Expiration Date: 23-may-2016
Creation Date: 06-aug-1997
Expiration Date: 05-aug-2016
Created: 1997-10-13 00:00:00
Creation Date: 08-jul-1998
Expiration Date: 07-jul-2015
Thanks for the correction, the 13 years+ was based off the .net since I believe that's where the deal I got was on. 15 years is amazing though, wow.
ROFL... still waiting on access to that.
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I started because it was something I liked doing (working with servers). It just kept spreading until it took me over XD
@prometeus you win Our oldest domain is from 01/06/1998
Now I'm Irate!
I enjoy helping people. This is why I would rather run a free web hosting company than paid any day (hopefully I'll get back into this shortly).
in the 1997 my wife needed some place to publish the site for a few clients. I looked at the hosting offers of the time and I thinked I was able to do it better
I leased the first server in May of the 1997 if I remember well (it was a SGI server with irix), the second was a SUN with solaris and from the third I settled with linux...
I was payng $600/month for the server and colo. Then we got one rack and this is one of the billing statments:
256IP x2 = $200
Colocation: $900
Advanced Traffic Monitoring: $24.95
Bandwidth: (10GB x 6) $1,200
TOTAL: $2,324.95
And this was a quote for a server
PII 400, 256MB Ram, ASUS PIIIB-F MainBoard, FDD, 20GB 7200 RPM HDD, Diamond Video, mitsumi cdrom, intel 10/100 netwk card.
buy: $1065.00
lease: $89/mth
Rack mount 2-U would be aprox $200 more....
Not bad
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It was the late '90 and it was supereasy to get ip. at the beginning of 2000, when my wife was pregnant and we decided to hand the operations to our biggest reseller (which was already helping us to manage the hosting business) we had more than 3000 ip in use.
I got into hosting for all the hot bitches and the millions of dollars that come with it.
How is that going for you :P
Pretty good. We have hosting orgies and my pool is filled with hundred dollar bills. We snort our coke off of old hard drive disks.
mmh the old dial-up time
I remember installing a keylogger on my parent's PC to get their AOL password and later use the first version of Ophcrack & rainbow tables to crack their windows password
Omg thats already so long ago, i was like 12 back then
I originally just did it as a fun thing out of my house with an @home connection and a small server I built from scraps. It was originally mostly there to host a personally site I had. After a year or so we decided to move it to a shared box and things grew from there.
Frantech wasn't originally started as a hosting company, rather a web development 'firm' in Victoria. I had a good amount of interest and lots of contracts but I kept getting stiffed by people for fairly decent sums of money.
At the time #deltaanime was my primary channel on daIRC and I started to hear constant requests that we start offering VPS servers. After I worked a few months in construction I saved up and invested what I had (around $4000) into our first equipment.
When we originally started we used XENSERVER but it was just a terrible beast.
Francisco
Just one reason.
WINNING
When your out of business, sure.
TAKE IT TO THUNDERDOME!
LowEndDome
Lol. If I really wanted to, Id have you out of business tomorrow ;-) But Ill let you be and think your all that and a bag a chips for today.