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06-22-2005, 11:47 PM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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effective WHT advertising & promotions
For those who have had effective ads in the WHT advertising section, can you give some advice to newcomers?
What types of promotions have been efective, what stong points of your ads to WHT readers seem to be drawn to?
I have places a couple of ads, and have not had a single email from anybody. Does anybody want to critique my current ad? http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...hreadid=416792
While your at it, please let me know what you think of my website - http://www.bluedotlabs.com.
Please note, this post is not to advertise my other ad or website, but to get some feedback from fellow hosting companies.J. Michael Katip • mike [at] BlueDotLabs [dot] com • www.BlueDotLabs.com
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06-22-2005, 11:56 PM #2WHT Addict
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I think your ad is veeeery long!
If you look at any other ad, they just put up the most important info, that is the special promos, etc.
Try to make it shorter.
One more thing, it doesnt mean that you will get new clients, its not like that. You have to find a way to enter the competitive market here & be popular before anybody at WHY will trust you, Keep this in mind.
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06-22-2005, 11:58 PM #3Web Hosting Evangelist
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I'm assuming you have a Hyperthreaded server in which case your advertisement is quite misleading.
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06-23-2005, 06:23 AM #4Disabled
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1) "Memory: 1,000 MB" is a double turnoff, first because it shows technical ignorance and second because for a dual Xeon with HT it's a laughstock.
2) PHP 4.3.9 is ages old and has several exploits.
3) Your prices are much too low to awaken any confidence, it looks like gross overselling.
4) I clicked through to the website and to put it mildly, it's strange... and usability is very low.
Don't take it the wrong way, I put down all this criticism because you were specifically asking for what's wrong...
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06-23-2005, 04:59 PM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
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Originally posted by aeserver
I think your ad is veeeery long!
If you look at any other ad, they just put up the most important info, that is the special promos, etc.
Try to make it shorter.
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06-23-2005, 05:45 PM #6Junior Guru Wannabe
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Originally posted by Karthick
I'm assuming you have a Hyperthreaded server in which case your advertisement is quite misleading.
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06-23-2005, 05:54 PM #7Eternal Member
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http://www.bluedotlabs.com/images/cpu.jpg - Two of those could easily be virtual CPUs and they MOST LIKELY are.
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06-23-2005, 06:18 PM #8Junior Guru Wannabe
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Originally posted by RambOrc
1) "Memory: 1,000 MB" is a double turnoff, first because it shows technical ignorance and second because for a dual Xeon with HT it's a laughstock.
Once again, check out the pic in my previous post - it is a QUAD XEON Machine, not dual.
Originally posted by RambOrc
2) PHP 4.3.9 is ages old and has several exploits.
Originally posted by RambOrc
3) Your prices are much too low to awaken any confidence, it looks like gross overselling.
Originally posted by RambOrc
4) I clicked through to the website and to put it mildly, it's strange... and usability is very low.
Originally posted by RambOrc
Don't take it the wrong way, I put down all this criticism because you were specifically asking for what's wrong... [/B]J. Michael Katip • mike [at] BlueDotLabs [dot] com • www.BlueDotLabs.com
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06-23-2005, 06:23 PM #9Disabled
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Well actually 1 GB RAM is 1024 MB, not 1000.
As for the 4 CPUs in WHM (I guess that's where you got it), it displays a HT CPU as two CPUs (which is dead wrong basically since HT's performance boost is something like 30%). If you pay anything less than $500 (make it rather $1000) monthly if it's a dedicated or if you paid for it less than $5000 (and steeply upwards) if you bought it for colo, then I can guarantee you it's not a quad Xeon. Quad Xeon systems cost way more than double the price of a Dual Xeon system.
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06-23-2005, 07:13 PM #10Junior Guru Wannabe
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Originally posted by RambOrc
[B]Well actually 1 GB RAM is 1024 MB, not 1000.J. Michael Katip • mike [at] BlueDotLabs [dot] com • www.BlueDotLabs.com
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06-23-2005, 08:04 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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Hmm, ive never saw a REAL quad xeon in WHM, but i think it would show 8 CPU's (because dual Xeons show 4 - 2 have HT and the other 2 are physical).
Ive used dual xeon servers before and i saw the same thing.
IMO 1GB Ram sounds better then 1000mb (the correct term is 1024 though).
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06-23-2005, 08:07 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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My guess a dual with HT
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06-23-2005, 10:26 PM #13Junior Guru Wannabe
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Perhaps I was showing my ignorance when I had my specs posted.
Until now, I was unaware that WHM would show a hyperthreaded server as two. I did just confirm with my host (FatNetwork) the sever is indeed dual w/ hyperthreading. I can't beleive that they would market it as having 4 actual CPUs.
The reason I was under the impression that my server actually has four processors is because I was actually told so. The following was taken from the FatNetwork site:
"Your reseller account will be placed on a server with the following minimum specifications: QUAD (4 Processor) XEON @ 2.4GHz"
I have a 3Ghz P4 w/ hyperthreading in my machine at home, apparently I should be telling my friends I'm running a dual processor machine when I'm not.
When I asked about this I was told "We use 2 xeon processors with hyperthreading on all our reseller boxes. The hyperthreading makes the system run as though there were 4 cpus."
When confronted on how misleading this is, and after informing them that I now had to update my site and advertising because claiming to have four processors is just wrong, I was told the following.
"Not a problem, however, it is widely known in the industry as "quad-xeon" becuase of the hyperthreading."
Frankly that sounds like an excuse for false advertising if you ask me. This has been the first problem I have had with FatNetwork, but it is seriously making me reconsider sticking with them. The service and support has been excellant, but I'm not sure I want to support somebody who is that misleading.
Would I be wrong to switch to another host and then ask for my money back because I was not receiving what I paid for?J. Michael Katip • mike [at] BlueDotLabs [dot] com • www.BlueDotLabs.com
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06-23-2005, 10:36 PM #14Junior Guru Wannabe
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BTW - I have just submitted a request to have my post in the ad section deleted, and I have updated my site so that I am not equally misleading.
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06-24-2005, 03:29 AM #15Web Hosting Evangelist
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Originally posted by Blue Dot Labs
"Not a problem, however, it is widely known in the industry as "quad-xeon" becuase of the hyperthreading."
Frankly that sounds like an excuse for false advertising if you ask me. This has been the first problem I have had with FatNetwork, but it is seriously making me reconsider sticking with them. The service and support has been excellant, but I'm not sure I want to support somebody who is that misleading.
You have been tricked and mislead. You should do more research and try and choose a more ethical providor next time.
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06-24-2005, 03:39 AM #16Web Hosting Evangelist
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Originally posted by RambOrc
(which is dead wrong basically since HT's performance boost is something like 30%)
Originally posted by RambOrc
Quad Xeon systems cost way more than double the price of a Dual Xeon system.
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06-24-2005, 05:17 AM #17Disabled
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Originally posted by Karthick
I don't think so. Actually I don't think it would be any more than 5%, if that.
Originally posted by Karthick
You're looking at about $15,000 for a Quad Xeon system since you need Xeon MP, so it's much more than double the cost.
BTW as an aside information, you don't need Xeon MPs to build a quad (or even bigger) system, several companies have developed systems years ago that use special boards to hook up several dual boards into a bigger whole. IBM e.g. has a server line that allows you to build a server with up to 32 CPUs using Xeon DPs (and yes you can configure it the way that any OS will see the whole conglomerate as a single computer).
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06-24-2005, 05:20 AM #18Web Hosting Evangelist
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Originally posted by RambOrc
I meant the upper limit, since there is no point talking about a minimum performance increase because it's with all such technology 0% (under specific circumstances, even a real dual or quad CPU system may be exactly as slow as a single CPU system).
You mean "much more than double" is a bigger number than "way more than double", hence your correction?
BTW as an aside information, you don't need Xeon MPs to build a quad (or even bigger) system, several companies have developed systems years ago that use special boards to hook up several dual boards into a bigger whole. IBM e.g. has a server line that allows you to build a server with up to 32 CPUs using Xeon DPs (and yes you can configure it the way that any OS will see the whole conglomerate as a single computer).
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06-24-2005, 05:44 AM #19Disabled
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http://www.2cpu.com/articles/41_4.html
Linux 2.6 and Hyper-Threading - Static HTML and MySQL
"Enabling HT on this machine results in a 29% increase in requests per second."
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06-24-2005, 05:47 AM #20Web Hosting Evangelist
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Originally posted by RambOrc
http://www.2cpu.com/articles/41_4.html
Linux 2.6 and Hyper-Threading - Static HTML and MySQL
"Enabling HT on this machine results in a 29% increase in requests per second."
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06-24-2005, 09:25 PM #21Junior Guru Wannabe
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this thread was intended to discuss effective wht advertising, and although I do like where the discussion is going, it does appear to be somewhat off topic....so I have created a new discussion for the cpu related talk "Quad Xeon Servers ( AKA Dual Xeons with Hyperthreading )" - http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...hreadid=418499
Hopefully the correct title on that thread will lead to better exposure....and perhaps this topic will either return to the topic of advertising, or just get lost in the shuffle....
Thanks to everybody who gave me input on my site, and even more thanks to the cpu discussion. My eyes have really been opened and I really want to look into this further and get back to my host on the subject, but I think the new thread is a better place to discuss cpu matters.J. Michael Katip • mike [at] BlueDotLabs [dot] com • www.BlueDotLabs.com
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