Why not moderator's here create a private forum for all the web host to share and discuss privately on some web host only issues.

Just suggestions.


:D

Jut curious, what would you use to qualify members?

If you own dedicated servers and sell?

If you resell?

If you sell subdomain space?

Do you have to sell? What if you host free services? Internal company services?

If you have a web presence?

If you do more than $20k a year in sales? $50k? $300k?

Who would validate that the members of the private forum are really web hosts?

Just some questions to ponder. I've tried to establish private discussion forums in the past for various trade organizations, and membership is always an interesting discussion.

-t

How about if you simply sell or provide webspace publically?

There are already excellant forums for Web Hosts at http://www.hostcoalition.org all you need to do is let the forum maintainers know that you are a web host and you will be given access to the private web host only forums.

Not many posts.... doesn't make it an attractive BB.

I thought of adding this to my site (the hideout one), and there have been hosts that suggested it, etc., but I'm just not sure there is *enough* interest in the idea. If I added it, I wouldn't want it to overlap this site in any way (as I think certain things are pretty well covered here). I'd say that this forum is hard enough to keep up with and I don't think it would be added here. If people have interest in this, gimme a yell, but I'm guessing I'll get about 10 requests and that just ins't enough to sustain a forum.

I get you... Private is busier than the public then...

Thanks..

Originally posted by Adam@OpenHosting
Not many posts.... doesn't make it an attractive BB.

Adam, most of the posts are in the forums that are only for hosts. If you haven't been given access to those forum via an email to the Hostcoalition administrator, you won't even see those forums. Hostcoalition is good forum with many noc specific forums. Granted, a large majority of the hosts are Alabanza based, but there is still a huge opportunity for hosts to discuss things outside of the public eye.

Originally posted by thewitt
Jut curious, what would you use to qualify members?

If you own dedicated servers and sell?

If you resell?

If you sell subdomain space?

Do you have to sell? What if you host free services? Internal company services?

If you have a web presence?

If you do more than $20k a year in sales? $50k? $300k?

Who would validate that the members of the private forum are really web hosts?

Just some questions to ponder. I've tried to establish private discussion forums in the past for various trade organizations, and membership is always an interesting discussion.

-t

All host listed at the "ATTN ALL HOST...." thread at the advertising forum can access to the private forum.

Because sometimes, as a web host and you have some problems with server, and if you ask at public what do you think your customer will think?

Need a poll ?

To ksstudio:
Good suggestion.

To thewitt:
You said: "Who would validate that the members of the private forum are really web hosts?"

The moderator has to. But it can be done by using a simple automated PHP scripts or whatever.

Suggestion 1:
the hostmaster members must post thier own hosting site addr AND e-mail addr. The e-mail addr MUST match thier hosting site domains.

Suggestion 2:
Or the hostmaster members must login from thier own hosting site. Then the automated script again has to verify the REFERER. It must MATCH the site DOMAIN in those members profile.

Any suggestion?

regards

This does raise a couple of points.

If a private forum is set up to discuss issues that a host may be having or questions that have arisen without having their customers privy to that discussion, what does that host do if they have customers who are also hosts, i.e. a host that sells to end users as well as to resellers? Also, no matter how private a forum is, all it takes is one person to copy and paste.

Although a script can verify that the domain name of the hosting site given in the profile and that used in the email address match, it would still take human eyes to visit that domain and see that yes, it appeared to be the site belonging to a web hosting provider, because not all hosts have domain names that include "host" in them.

what about a mailing list, as I am addicted to these things so I am a bit biased towards them, I think that they might be a bit easier to use in a situation where only one topic is being discussed.

I belong to one that's for web hosts only on isp-planet.com, but there is not a whole lot of focus to it, it tends to chew up a lot of bandwidth with random topics.

There are a lot of web hosts who are trying to sell to other web hosts, or want to partner with them for something-and the replies are usually posted in the threads instead of offline. The worst was when the guy from Level3 tried trolling for business on there. Oops.

And then there was the angry reseller with the axe to grind against his upstream provider. That particular thread went on eternally, through several name changes.