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From: owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org
[mailto:owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org]On Behalf Of Walter Landman
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 12:31 AM
To: Peter Dyke
Cc: Abhimanyyu Raj-Singh; discuss-list@opensrs.org
Subject: Re: FW: Cheap Website Hosting
I personally would never sign up with a company that offers unlimited
traffic. Even if they do think that things will 'even-out'. Most companies
who offer unlimited traffic are just in for the short term, hoping to get a
lot of customer squikcly, then selling out. If you are looking for a long
term company you can deal with, then be smart, and ask them questions. Don't
just let them state they're
part of it. What mail software do they use to provide their services? Do
theey really offer unlimiteed aliases, or just a catch all account?
Dont just except the offer but make sure you know what your getting into. A
partner only works well when its long term, so the extra time you invest
now, will definately pay off in the future. Dont be a jabroni. Eat Kraft and
Cheese Macaroni!.
P.S: This e-mail has not been sponsored, or edited by Kraft Foods. I am
not legally liable if their stock goes up or down from my e-mail.
Have a great day all!
-- Walter LandmanHi Walter / All,
The below is in reply to Walter's mail, which is printed above.
Where you come from Walter, skepticism may be the key to advancement and success, but surely there is always a jury that returns a verdict and not the bystander. When one is on a mailing list and addressing companies of similar standing, then calling them crooks and fly by night operators to their face is not, in our opinion a respectable thing to do.
You took off on a rather simple offer of sustaining unlimited traffic on a website and ran our company into the ground because of that. Not withstanding the Macaroni and the Jabroni, we lost honour among peers and friends many of whom are on the same mailing lists.
I am the Chief Executive & Founder of our company and we took great pains to come up with this offer as a matter pride to help fellow resellers. It was simply because we found a lot of RSP's in need of the space not only for their clients but also for their own websites. If you do some mathematics you will yourself realise that US $ 49 for a 25 mb website for a whole year is not a money making proposition. As a matter of fact we find ourselves under priced by about US $ 30 per site to show a minimally acceptable profit. It's because we have 24 odd servers at our disposal, each with a 17 GB work capacity, which are not going to do maximum space or capacity utilisation for some time, that we thought of making this offer.
The single biggest reason that we can offer services at hugely discounted rates is not because we intend to take the clients money and run, but because in India we have direct access to the single largest pool of highly trained computer professionals on Earth. And they all speak the Lingua Franca of the internet, English, fluently. A highly trained person to look after our computers costs us between US $ 600 to US $ 900 per month here, with most other salaries being below this level. The cost of living index here, insures that this salary is enough to enable the individual to live in style, owning a car etc., which is considered luxury here. All this is against a start-up salary of US $ 5,000 a month, plus benefits, which is offered to the same individual in the US and the West. A statistic: 65% of all H1 visas issued Worldwide last year by the United States were issued to Indian job aspirants.
By your single mail you negated most of our intention to share our capacities with people who really might have needed them.
We have however been receiving mail from different RSP's who would like to take up our offer but are at the same time slightly concerned because of your views and the fact that we did not counter them.
For your perusal and the information off all those who have been requesting it, we are giving expanded details about our offer below.
In an effort to be more transparent we will give access to the site admin area of one of our dummy sites to anyone who genuinely wishes to check out our claims and is subsequently interested in taking up our offer. The rest as they say ' the proof is in the eating of the pudding'.
We hold you no grudges, but do humbly request you to be a little selective in passing such enormous value judgements. The site admin inspection offer is open to you too even if you have no intention of taking up the 25 mb website offer.
We offer server space on UNIX servers with the following: Server Specs: a.. RAQ 3 b.. Located in the United States c.. Exodus Backbone d.. Dual Pentium P-III 500 mhz processors. e.. 256 mb Ram f.. 9.2 Gb X 2 HDDs g.. Multiple T3 connectivity h.. Our servers normally support 50 Gb Traffic per month by default (This can be increased). Website Specs a.. One year hosting b.. 25 mb disk space c.. 5 pop3 Email accounts d.. Unlimited Email aliases ( Not a catch all account ) e.. Email forwarding f.. Unlimited FTP access g.. CGI bin access h.. Web based site administration (totally user friendly) i.. Mailing Lists j.. Auto Responders k.. Hosting on Linux OS l.. Userwise disk usage report m.. Front page extension support n.. Data Backup and restorage facility o.. Max. 2 day setup time from resolving of DNS entries p.. Mail software is SENDMAIL which is preconfigured on Linux q.. Traffic: As regards individual traffic, we are pretty flexible upto a Gb or 2, but if the Traffic on a 25 mb site gets out of hand then you will have to move up to a non scheme website. r.. No Adult sites or Illegal sites or Hate Sites (Will invite immediate de-activation, with no refunds) All of this is on special offer for a total of US $ 49.00 for the year. We have a minimal us $ 5.00 setup fee which is waived. So there is currently no setup fee! This low offer has been specially formulated for resellers to enable them to offer this low cost space to their customers, thus it has certain limitations.
1.. In this offer only the facilities listed above are available. Apart from what we have listed above, the sites support little else. 2.. Extra space and/or pop3 id's can be had by paying more. 3.. The sites however support Pearl and CGI. As regards Java they support coding and appelets, but definitely not Java Servelets. You can run CGI from other directories. 4.. You cannot use subdomains- ie myhost.mydomain.com. 5.. Each user (limited to 5) can have his or her own url within the site for which they may have individual ftp access to their own files, this will cost a little more. Eg: www.mydomain.com/~user1 & www.mydomain.com/~user2. Each user can also be given secure access at an additional cost where we will have to do configure it through the root. You do not have root access but we can support you. 6.. We need the Domain Name, Primary Email id (for domain admin.) and a indicative password for the webspace creation. The latter 2 may be changed anytime after assumption of site administration by you or your client. 7.. The webspace needs to be paid up fully for the whole year. 8.. All monies are non refundable. Once alotted the site is yours for the year. 9.. Regardless of mode of fund transfer our total accrual for the basic website must be not less than US $ 49.00 for the year. 10.. We shortly intend to put up a FAQ page to cover queries for the service online. We are OpenSRS RSP's and affordable hosting is our area of specialization. We have made this offer as a result of several postings for Cheaper Web Space (as below). The offer price is valid for the first year only subsequently there will be a increase of US $ 30 per year to rationalise the price.
We are here to offer any clarifications and answer any questions that you may have.
Regards,
Abhimanyyu Raj-Singh Chief Executive Officer Magicus Inc. magicus@vsnl.com V - +91 22 623-9450 F - +91 22 623-2236 ICQ - 27759862 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- MAKING MAGIC !
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