 | View Full Version : How old is yours and did you do it anyway? Londo 10-31-2002, 09:55 PM What am i on about you mught be thinking. Well here it is short and sweet. My host will soon be 4 years oldso; How old is your web hosting company and why did you set up a company anyway? don't the market is over saturated at the minute, just an extra ? :) mas3000 10-31-2002, 11:49 PM We've been open for a little more than 2 years. Why did we start? - I saw an ad for a reseller account and it interested me so I did some research and decided to go for it. - Mike akashik 11-01-2002, 12:23 AM about two and a half years now. I was hosted at ADDR, and figured it couldn't be harder to do a lot better. Changed hosts, became a reseller, and now we run our own servers. So in an odd way I guess I can thank poor service for giving me a good job :D Greg Moore mpkapadia 11-01-2002, 02:25 AM Over 3 Years now. Started off buying space from other host for hosting own sites , corporate mails of group sites . Eventually evolved as full fledged activity and seperate company and we have own servers now. Why am i doing it , for my bread and butter , and cheeze and jam ofcourse :) Regards, Tallon 11-01-2002, 03:24 AM 18 months and going :) I don't know why I started, I must have been insane. Seriously though, there weren't any local companies that were offering reasonable rates on their services. Most were charging $50+ set up fees and $49 a month for 25MB of space and about 2GB of bandwidth - not including what we would call the basics like FTP access. I wanted to make web hosting something that was affordable to domain owners in my area. cedwards 11-01-2002, 09:51 AM Well mine is like a few years old not sure exactly. But you will never see mine. Its a private one i do for friends and family. I dont acually make any money off it but just do it as a hobby. I started when i had alot of friends all paying high prices for webhosting and i figured i could do it for them for very low cost. So i started and charged them what it cost me to run it. Im acually thinking of going a little public soon just to make some extra cash on my gaming site but not very sure if i want to or not. AussieHosts 11-01-2002, 10:04 AM Originally posted by Londo How old is your web hosting company and why did you set up a company anyway? 4 years and 4 days. :) We rolled on from a parttime hardware business on the side of my Army job, into a dialup ISP, and then into hosting and development. Reselling for 2 years and then onto our own servers. We've seen a lot come and go, and have thoroughly enjoyed the show. ;) Gary |