RE: [cobalt-users] A general question..

[Tom Socha <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't forget your colo fee's. Out here we are paying anywhere from $1000 -
$1500 a month for a T1. You may start out with a lesser line (256 maybe)
until your business is booming. What we found is most people update their
sites about...oh..never and most of them have no clue except they want to
be the next ebay or amazon and IPO within a month, and most of them never
promote their sites. One thing to keep in mind, let them know you are just
hosting their site. We got stuck in several situations where the client
belived it was our responsibilty to maintain it and promote it. At one
time we were running about 60 sites and had a line saturation of about 7%.
we have had no problems with the raq's we own except for the usual crap
your find on the mailing list (front page problems, ftp problems, cgi
problems, mysql, php, no real-server support, java problems) but have
troubleshot almost everything and I am sure have voided our warrenty on
the boxes well into the next millenium.

My opinion...keep it basic hosting, don't get overzealous, and don't
promise something you can't deliver.

Tom Socha
Technical Services
MoJo Graphics
http://www.mojographics.com

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Dan wrote:

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> Besides the Cobalt server and a connection to the Internet, except for your
> billing methods, no other software for the server needs to be purchased in
> order to do web hosting.
> --
> Dan Kriwitsky
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Cyber Sam
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 3:39 PM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] A general question..
> 
> 
> Thanks for taking a moment to read this note. I am interested in maybe
> starting my own web host service and need a little more information. What I
> need to know is other that the web server, what other hardware/software did
> you have to buy/lease in order to get up and running. I won't ask you for
> costs, as every situation is unique and I feel it would also be rude to ask
> such a question.
> 
> 
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