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Couldnt agree with you more here, I have been around the industry for a while now I have seen all the crap that goes on. The constant lies and deceptions, which is why I am making the effort off the bat to be honest. I have a section on my website which clearly says "What is not supported" this gives them information straight away with them assuming it has it and ordering the wrong package.

its limited packages, aimed purely at the tiny business website. I have three packages, 10MB, 30MB and 70MB. This serves a number of purposes.

1. Limits the amount of risk from overselling 2. Increases the profitability of the server 3. Prevents abuse (people uploading mp3's, videos etc) 4. Easier Maintenance

I am flexible however, so if a customer needs a little more room I wont charge the earth for it.

Thanks for the comments. Your olark.com website is really nice.

There are certain people that I will not appeal to, and I want to make sure that is easily visible to everyone. One of the largest problems I have seen in the industry is inaccurate selling and deceiving customers. I don't want to attract large websites I am actively aiming at small, low traffic, low impact websites. Those are the easiest customers to support and the easiest to please.

I hear that, hosting is all I know and think it may be a good place to at least try.

Yeah I think you are exactly right. Whilst I have done my own server before this time I have a dedicated through another company. So starting my own "hosting company" may be taken different ways.

these days its where the money is when it comes to hosting. Im ok with being in the people business that relates to hosting.

What I am trying to do is run the company whilst working for another company. I imagine the cost they lost was on hardware? That is where I am fine as I am running a modest server at the moment for my own websites, with enough space to sell and an easy route to increase the resources/migrate to a larger server when the time comes.

Nicely done, a good clean approach utilising current logs so no increase on server overheads by running the app, that I can tell.

Thanks for the reply.

My target is to not oversell my systems, what most people fail to do most of the time. Offer spam protection at no extra cost, means less server administration for me and happier customers overall.

My differentiator is that whilst I offer very small hosting packages, aimed at the small business website I offer a package addon which means they can pickup their phone and just ask for something to be done, a page updated, email address created, sent a backup of their site etc etc (this is within reason). My aim is to take out the worry of maintaining a website for the new user, and allow them to focus on running their own business instead of fiddling around with a hosting control panel.

A great idea, now to find them and persuade them.

The apartment may have cost him $800 a month, however you have other costs, bills, taxes, maintenance. He doesn't have any of that worry or expense now, so it will probably work out cheaper for him.

I am starting a few little projects at the moment, so my time is becoming more limited as I work on different things. The problem is my girlfriend doesnt really do anything for her self, she works and goes out maybe once or twice every fortnight with her friends. I fear that once my projects really get moving she wont understand that I am trying to make something of my self, and that idea may be holding me back from forging ahead in my ideas. Is that dumb?

Its a tough watch the first time, I was left scratching my head!

Can you help me out of my debt so I can start to make short films? - Don't know until you ask.

HTML5 doesnt work on the iPad - at least not as its intended to be used: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfmbZkqORX4