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Taste new vps/dedicated online board - v.1.0 beta
Hello, people.
Let me introduce our free small project.
Serverbox is supposed as a online board with vps and dedicated plans of different providers.
What we have inside?
First of all, You don't need to sign up.
Just make XML feed with your plans and upload this xml to Your hosting.
After that, push url on this xml feed to our database.
Our little spider will eat Your remote feed time to time and update data on board.
That's all.
We made beta release and I will be grateful if you do test and add Your plans to us.
I hope it will be useful )
Best regards, Alex.
Comments
No! Not XML! :OOOO
Should use Json, or better accepted by Content-Type headers. :P
I thought that xml is most simple for a wide group of people. But json or simple api is a good idea for the near future. I agree.
I couldn't imgine anything simpler than JSON, but that may be my personal feeling. I like the idea by the way. So hard to loose track of all those offers.
Is this a test or what? http://www.serverbox.io/more/v/51/
Yes, it's test. I added this to show the idea )
Chrisp, thanks. I'll try to make it better and better.
Looks good! but what if someone uploads XML files with false informations (spam)? are all submissions manually checked/confirmed?
It's from like the 90s =P
I check it manually for the first time.
Good old XML
. You should BOLD wiki page where is example of .xml requirements.
Thanks for join us ) Do you mean to make bold wiki in navigation header of the site?
@serverbox Yes, or at least give direct link to it near "+Add" form.
Useless on mobiles.
Add a section for shared hosting, Then I'll join
Looks nice, i'll have some plans coming your way very soon
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Edit: would be nice if you could add a hourly price tag like 0.001337
love the dedicated plans
Maybe add some security/checks before pulling the data so you don't get fake dedicated plans etc.
Just my 2 cents but wouldn't a header for provider be a nice addition.
Yes, I agree. I see near add form word "sandbox". I'll make active wiki url instead of it.
planned. It's only beta now )
I suppose Serverbox as "server service". Maybe I need more votes for this idea. But I'll think about this. Thanks.
Thanks. Your feed approved. Hope this helps Your business.
Hourly price - yes it's good idea. I missed this, sorry. Planned.
No, as I said it's test plans ) . I delete this test plans after real dedicated plan will be pushed. I check feed before approve it.
Sorry, I missed the idea . You mean to make banner places for providers above the header of the site?
No I meant have another column which just says who the provider is of that plan
Several small updates into Serverbox.
But first of all, I would like to thank companies:
Your feeds helped us in development.
v.1.1
In progress.
The problem is that every company name has different length. For example, "Datarealm Internet Services" - will be too long for main table, we don't have so much place there.
But all providers have "Buy now" button into main table with active url. User need one click to see provider.
Looked at the site and there's no company info. Can't really tell all the plans apart.
"More info" page contains Company name + website.
Maybe you can add like an uptime monitor for each company, You can test with a test IP if they give one.
Now that would be something rather interesting.
I hope that isn't too hard on @serverbox
Something like http://serverbear.com/uptime ? I think it's good idea with uptime monitor. I can't promise that I'll make it tomorrow, but I'm sure it's worth to include in Serverbox.
Yes, Something like that would suffice
can't read anything, all black in Firefox.
Not all. There is also other colors (white, blue, red etc).
Hi.
Several updates in Serverbox.
v.1.2.
We added:
Welcome! Add your plans to the board )
serverbox.io