Webhosting
Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 8:21 pm
Hi All,
As many of you know bigpower costs a little bit of money each month to host. In the beginning we had a membership fee that covered costs of hosting, and more recently we have had a bit of whip round to cover costs, we do however need to be able to sustain this in the long term.
What I propose to do is purchase some hosting myself, and then resell this to bigpower which will reduce the hosting costs. This in turn gives me the opportunity to offer hosting packages for anyone who is interested, and, if I can reach the point where my costs are covered by people buying hosting from me, bigpower can piggy back on top of this for free, it may not even need to be totally altruistic, you may even save yourselves a few quid in the deal, and for those of you who have websites and have suffered 3 hour calls to call centers in the US to get them fixed, wouldn't it be easier to fire me a PM on bigpower with the promise of a pint and get on with your lives?
Plan!
What I need to know is, who is interested and how much you are paying for what, so that I can work out how much to hosting to buy and what to charge out.
If you are interested, please fill one of these in and post it on here or PM me:
Current Hosting Company:
Package Name:
Monthly Cost:
GB Bandwidth/Month:
GB Disc Space:
My/SQL Database Required?:
PHP Required:
Uptime Guarantees:
Domain Name(s):
I hope, in this way we can help to guarantee BP's future and save ourselves a few quid in to the bargain, should be getting this up and running in August, so replies/interest by Mid August would be great!
Rest assured, any provider I choose will not be some fly by night outfit offering unlimited bandwidth, 100% up-time and a free pair of invisible trousers.
Cheers
Maff
As many of you know bigpower costs a little bit of money each month to host. In the beginning we had a membership fee that covered costs of hosting, and more recently we have had a bit of whip round to cover costs, we do however need to be able to sustain this in the long term.
What I propose to do is purchase some hosting myself, and then resell this to bigpower which will reduce the hosting costs. This in turn gives me the opportunity to offer hosting packages for anyone who is interested, and, if I can reach the point where my costs are covered by people buying hosting from me, bigpower can piggy back on top of this for free, it may not even need to be totally altruistic, you may even save yourselves a few quid in the deal, and for those of you who have websites and have suffered 3 hour calls to call centers in the US to get them fixed, wouldn't it be easier to fire me a PM on bigpower with the promise of a pint and get on with your lives?
Plan!
What I need to know is, who is interested and how much you are paying for what, so that I can work out how much to hosting to buy and what to charge out.
If you are interested, please fill one of these in and post it on here or PM me:
Current Hosting Company:
Package Name:
Monthly Cost:
GB Bandwidth/Month:
GB Disc Space:
My/SQL Database Required?:
PHP Required:
Uptime Guarantees:
Domain Name(s):
I hope, in this way we can help to guarantee BP's future and save ourselves a few quid in to the bargain, should be getting this up and running in August, so replies/interest by Mid August would be great!
Rest assured, any provider I choose will not be some fly by night outfit offering unlimited bandwidth, 100% up-time and a free pair of invisible trousers.
Cheers
Maff