Website Proposal - HiRes Central: Recruiting Staff

[but2002]

Fine, the topic of phpBB will not be spoken from me again.

I use a pretty cool host for my site ( http://www.100webspace.com ) It supports PHP PEARL MySQL etc..

FREE Hosting w/ banners plan
100 MB Disk Space, 3,000 MB Traffic, 1 Domain Hosted, 5 Subdomains, 3 Email Aliases $0.00 /yr. $8.95 /yr to remove banners

Personal package plan
300 MB Disk Space, 10,000 MB Traffic, 1 Domain Hosted, 5 Subdomains, 5 Email Aliases $26.55 /yr.

Personal Pro plan
2,500 MB Disk Space, 45,000 MB Traffic, 3 Domains Hosted, 20 Subdomains, 1200 Email Aliases $56.59 /yr.

Business package plan
1,200 MB Disk Space, 30,000 MB Traffic, 1 Domain Hosted, 300 Subdomains, 600 Email Aliases $74.59 /yr.

Gold package plan
2,400 MB Disk Space, 40,000 MB Traffic, 1 Domain Hosted, 400 Subdomains, 800 Email Aliases $164.59 /yr.

Platinum package plan
3,600 MB Disk Space, 50,000 MB Traffic, 1 Domain Hosted, 500 Subdomains, 1000 Email Aliases $299.59 /yr.

 

[Doomulation]

Let's see... the most expensive plan is $25/month.
Here is a feature list of what my host provides:

Disk Space / Storage 10 GB
Data Transfer 500 GB
Websites / Domains Allowed 3
Personalized Web Address (yourdomain.com) Yes
24x7 Phone/Chat/Email Support Yes
100% Uptime Guarantee Yes
POP3 Email Account Unlimited
Forwarding Account & Auto Responder Unlimited
E-mail Aliases Unlimited
Spam/ Junk-Mail Filters Yes
Web-Based Email (Access Your Email Anywhere!) Yes
Desktop Email (Supports Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.) Yes
Mailing Lists Yes
Website Builder with 1,000 Templates (Site Studio) Yes
Use your own (Dreamweaver/FrontPage and more) Yes
FTP accounts / FTP Anonymous Access Yes
SSL Secure Server Yes
MySQL Databases Unlimited
Pre-Installed Software/Scripts (Fantastico) 49
Blog Yes
Photo Sharing Yes
PHP w/ Zend Optimizer Yes
CGI-BIN Yes
PERL / Python Support Yes
Imagemagick / GD Yes
Server Side Includes Yes
FrontPage 2000 / 2002 Extensions Yes
Website Backup Software Yes
OS Commerce Shopping Cart Yes
ZenCart Shopping Cart Yes
Pay Pal Shopping Cart Yes
Search Engine Submission Yes
Keyword and Meta-Tag Generator Yes
Free Online Marketing Credit at Yahoo $100
AWstats Yes
Webalizer Yes
Raw Access Logs Yes
Bandwidth Usage Yes
Subdomains Unlimited
Parked Domains / Domain Aliases Unlimited
Custom Error Pages Yes
Password Protected Directories Yes
Streaming Audio / Video (Windows / Real Media) Yes
Flash / Shockwave Support Yes
Cron Job Support Yes
Secure Shell (SSH) Yes
Tier-1 Bandwidth Yes
UPS Power Backup / Diesel Generators Yes
Redundant CISCO Network Yes
24x7x365 Network Monitoring System Yes
Daily Backups Yes

And I pay less for it than the most expensive plan that site offers.

 

[but2002]

I like you host! What is the website?

 

[skyman8081]

Doom, the bandwidth and disk size on that is really low for this kind of website.

I would suggest going with dreamhost.

 

[but2002]

2.2 TB OF BaNDWITH!?

 

[Vanit]

Holy crap... dreamhost is teh dr00l. And you get 8gb of EXTRA bandwidth each week... But this is all a bit overkill... but its so cheap :O. I'll look into dreamhost definitely.

And I found the Jobs section quite amusing.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT REPRESENTATIVE
We're DEFINITELY always on the look out for good support people.

If you're located in or around the Brea or Downtown Los Angeles area, have good English language and touch-typing skills, Unix/Linux command-line experience, and (preferably) some customer-support experience, we'd like to hear from you! (Technical support here is 95% email and 5% phone calls.)

We could go on and on about how we're looking to hire "dynamic individuals to work in a fast-paced environment," and that ideal candidates would possess "a combination of solid technical knowledge and interpersonal skills to interact with a cutting-edge team of professionals," and blah blah blah. We could say all that, but companies say that crap all the time and they don't really care about who you are, just what you know.

We are SO not like that! If you're cool and enjoy jokes about ninjas and pirates, you'll probably get the job. If you come to the interview wearing a tie acting all high and mighty like it'd be some kind of honor for you to work for us, you probably won't get the job. You laugh now, but it's happened before!

 

[Doomulation]

Well... it is true that it has indeed more storage and bandwidth, but it also some things like scripts. I will also look into this - there is no need for you to pay the hosting.
But besides that, for now the site is small, and a big increase in bandwidth and space should not be necessary.
But unfortunaly, Shell / FTP / E-Mail Accounts is limited to 75 of the cheapest hosting plan wheras my current hosting allows for unlimited.

 

[Vanit]

Doomulation: Simply finding a host for us will not gain you a position as a staff member. I can tell, like but2002, that you keep pushing your ideas in hope of recognition when they're found obselete. So I'd appreciate it if you would stop pushing your magical host which you were hiding the name from us so you could bargain to hand it over for a staff position.

/taps nose

Yes, I noticed.

 

[Doomulation]

Vanit: I think that host is interesting and if you want I will help you, otherwise I will not. I don't care one way or another.

 

[Vanit]

Then you won't mind me saying we don't want your host then. I'll either be choosing dreamhost, and using it to host my own website too, or my friend will be hosting us.

 

[Doomulation]

Fine by me.
Good luck with your site.

 

[The Dave]

Vanit, if you plan on using dreamhost please tell me before you sign up for anything because I might be able to get you a discount.

 

[Dr. Soong]

what about midPhase, they claim to have "unmetered bandwidth"

 

[Vanit]

Well I think if you have 1.2TB you have nothing to worry about. But anyways, my friend has just told me that his site would be happy to host our website. So now thats settled I'd appreciate it if there was no more input on hosts at this issue has been resolved.

 

[but2002]

Hosting solved, when is it going up?

 

[Vanit]

Maybe a couple of weeks. It depends on when I get a chance to have a 1-1 talk with Lord Snow, the leader of the emulation site, which is emunext.net btw, then when The Dave and TS_Death_Angel have a fiddle around with the host to get the layout they want, and lastly when I have enough free time to write some tutorials.

 

[skyman8081]

what about midPhase, they claim to have "unmetered bandwidth"

Anybody who claims unlimited or unmetered bandwidth is a liar. There are limits to bandwidth, and it is what the server is physically capable of.

Unmetered means that if you get a lot of traffic, your site could still go down. Because the host is not making any guarantee's on how much bandwidth they give you, and it usually is laughably low.

If a site promises 2.2 TB of bandwidth, then that means that they actually have 2.2 TB of badwidth to give you. This is important in case you ever get slashdotted.

By the way, I just learned this the hard way, but dreamhost has a one-click install for Joomla/Mambo in the control panel. (I'm using dreamhost to host one of my own sites)

 

[but2002]

hmm.. Im going to look up mambo and do a test install on my server to find out all of its possibilities

 

[Vanit]

Dare I say, it took you long enough .

 

[but2002]

WOW! I apologize! This is a GREAT system although i didnt get the images all up, but this would be PERFECT!!!

Ill say it again, I apologize.