You Choose Our Name
Tough decision. Our (eventual) goal is to make a forum that can compete with WebHostingTalk forum.
Which is the best domain to use?
HostBoards.com
Hostingboards.com
WebhostBoard.com
WebhostingBoard.com
Thanks sincerely
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Best Forum Name?
- Best Forum Name?15 votes
- HostBoards.com46.67%
- Hostingboards.com0.00%
- WebhostBoard.com0.00%
- WebhostingBoard.com53.33%
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I mean, I don't want to rain down on you but the day of the forum is gone for hosting. Sure you can have more niche boards like this one but WHT has had its time and it knows it. Good luck with it though.
Also, is topwebhosts.com yours?
We sincerely appreciate the feedback @Lee. Would you say Facebook & Reddit will take over 80% or more from the forums?
Not all the domains are owned by the same person as we are a collective that owns the forum and we're seeking more owners to join us. There is a $400 "Buy-in" to join the Cooperative, see: https://hostboards.com/discussion/4240/competitive-edge-join-the-hosting-cooperative#latest
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Who are you, and what is your experience in the industry?
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Interested in hearing how you plan on doing that more than the name, based on the PMs you sent me offering to buy this place you don’t like to listen much or pay much attention to what is right in front of your face so for your own sake I would like you to either stop trolling or stop wasting your own time and money.
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So don't do it. I mean, if choosing a domain name is a 'tough decision' for which you need the advice of some random people what would running a webhosting forum be?
how about stop taking innocent peoples' $400 to do nothing
was just what i was wondering out loud.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
The forum is live, having been started in 2004 (with different name for first few years). So I ran it with the help of 10 Moderators for 13 years.
The database was hacked in 2017 to the point that I believed it to be unrecoverable as you can see in the 2018 capture on Archive.org:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180328130307/http://hostboards.com/
Last week I found a miracle worker database specialist who was able to recover most of the database. Some of the posts from its last year's was lost permanently.
My point is that I have 13 years of running the Host Boards Forum to prove my dedication & capability.
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I'm not trying to troll anyone Sir but want to respect your wishes. LowEndSpirit is your forum (along with Mason & Mikho). If you don't want this topic here I ask you to kindly delete it.
I would indeed like to purchase LowEndSpirit as I believe it is an incredibly nice forum, very well run. I estimate the value of LowEndSpirit to be more than I can afford to pay and thus the reason I submitted to you a "backup" offer as my offer was lower than the value of your forum but included the provision that you, Mason, and Mikho would remain 3 out of 10 owners of this forum in the new Hosting Cooperative.
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Yeah, you lost my attention right there. As far as that other site that some of your suggested domains point to. There is nothing more that I hate in hosting than scammy BS affiliate top host websites. All fake reviews and always the top affiliate payouts at the top such as Bluehost and HostGator focussed on. Likely never even used far less reviewed.
honest feedback wanted?
communities only grow if the place has something to offer to the real audience. what exactly is it, your place offers for everyone who is not looking to just place their uninteresting overpriced seo shit everywhere?
best of luck anyway ;-)
This is proving my point
you don't pay any attention to what anyone tells you or what is right in front of you, it is not my forum, I have told you that, it was incredibly public and there was a big announcement. even after telling you that specifically you still talk to me like I own it and try to buy it..
So I am going to go for trolling because I can't believe it is possible for you to genuinely think I still own the forum, or you have a tendency to only read what you want to read which is equally as ridiculous.
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50% - 50%
I agree with you 100% and I have no control over that site which is under a different owner.
I have personal control over HostBoards.com, Hostingboards.com, and WebhostBoard.com which do not lead to the TopWebHosts site we both hate.
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I apologize to you then. I assumed incorrectly that you, Mason & Mikho were three equal owners of LowEndSpirit.
Please let me make sure I understand then, LowEndSpirit will never be for sale because it's owned by the entire community of members?
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LET was built out of the passion of one guy for low-end systems by someone who had a genuine interest. LES was built by someone with a genuine interest in hosting and a desire to break away from what wasn't good at LET. That is what made them popular plus neither had a financial focus.
If you had the focus and intent you would pick a name, build a site and get going.
It just seems that all you are interested in is your co-op and financial gain. Your co-op link suggest what it is going to do and it is all about money, so you are building around that.
All I see is eventually create a forum to match WHT then eventually create something at Managenode.com and eventually do other things.
Stop posting at forums asking what you should do. Do it! Then come and say "look what I have done, please join, get involved".
You have a co-op, yet have no clear vision, making little to no progress and want $400 to be a part of that.
I don't think you are trolling but seeing the threads you make here and at LET it just seems clear you have no experience in what you are trying to achieve so are procrastinating around forums trying to find out what to do and how to move forward.
Ok, ignore what I said above, really, just fuck off now.
What were the issues with LET that caused LowEndSpirit to be created?
Were Hostballs and VPSBoard created for those same reasons?
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If you have 13 years experience with hosting forums then surely you would know what was happening with the ‘competition’ wouldn’t you?
@Offshore_Solutions Head over to LET, send mister Biloh a PM. I'm sure he will sell for the right price. He's a deal maker. Ya know.
he's gonna just leave his "backup offer" at the door
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
I had been browsing the LET and LES forums for some time but never understood what went on behind the scenes.
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It is 1st April joke? You could always buy any forum at the right price. 1million for user and afterwards we could go in any another website so think about the right offer
Inflation is coming bitcoins are accepted
I believe in good luck. Harder that I work ,luckier i get.
@Mason @mikho
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@Offshore_Solutions pardon me being naïve - in the US, how can one member of a coop unilaterally decide to give 3 shares away- like you proposed above? Have you made other promises to those developing the web panel and billing software for the coop?
We've set our goal at 10 total owners but right now it's just 2 of us. He's in on all decisions. Nothing is unilaterally done. The Cooperative offer was posted just 2 days ago on March 30th so it's early yet.
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So, a vote prior to entity formulation. Thus in reality you proposed - 3 shares to LET, 1 to you and 1 to the partner, and 5 that actually front money - or do some of those go to the "developer". So that leaves 2 grand for the control panel theme and the billing panel. And of course 50 bucks for a data center. By the way- where is the nearest fiber to the proposed data center and whats the cost of installing to the data center from its nearest connectivity point
Where is my 1 000 000 euros ? If you pay in advance a such amount directly to the users you could make lot of money after that . Free idea not buying in idea
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The proposed 10 owners would all contribute so we'd have $400 x 10 = $4,000 held in our Cooperative account administered by the attorney.
We were going to reduce the buy-in for Mikho, Mason and Anthony because of the very valuable LowEndSpirit (but they're not selling so it's a moot point).
There's a lot to do before a datacenter could be implemented and no decision to move forward on that until all 10 propsed owners are in place to vote on that proposal.
The Developer of the theme has quoted us under $2K as it's only a theme that is far less work than a fork. This theme would require us to pay the Developer 50 Euros update each time ispconfig releases a new version. Our theme would need it's version updated at those times.
What other value added benefits could a Cooperative provide that you might like?
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What is the attorneys quoted fees for year 1? And its moot not mute. Who is your "partner" currently?
LMFTFY
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what do you want to do with $4,000?
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
The most attractive attorney offer requires:
1) $1,300 to incorporate us as a "Limited Cooperative Association" which has the legal ability to sell shares if the owners need to raise capital.
2) $200 per year to be our registered agent which includes receiving mail on our behalf and having the domains registered to his law firm in trust for the Cooperative.
3) The firm's paralegal would be administering our Cooperative's bank account at a discounted hourly rate to be determined. We'll know that rate before moving forward.
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1) Just under $2,000 for the Developer to create our theme for Ispconfig.
2) $1,500 to the attorney for incorporation and Registered agent fees.
3) Just over $500 in reserve to cover miscellaneous like the 50 Euros for the update each time ispconfig releases a new version and the administration of our Cooperative bank account.
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Even with 10 members you are broke before you start 1300 + 200 +paralegal plus 2000 for programming (that would be a miracle) plus bank fees of at least100 a year plus state licensing fees plus cpa to file taxes plus the most likely request from whoever is director to pay for incidentals such as cell phone, internet, etc etc. Can't have a random personal number be an associations number. Oh plus website and hosting.
You are broke broke broke at 4 K buy in. Plus you haven't said who you or your associate are, your experience etc etc.
Good thing you can edit your prior statements, eh?
If you do not have 4000 euros in your bank account you are in trouble even 18years old has this amount so creating a cooperation for 4K is .....
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It's a tight budget to be sure. If we have some success selling our theme, I believe the 10 owners would most likely kick in to cover a possible shortfall with the understanding that most startups lose money their first year.
There's always the option to welcome new members or sell public shares as a "Limited Cooperative Association" allows you to do.
Host Boards currently sells no ads but that could be considered down the road by the owners.
The hope is that the 10 propsed owners would be able to brainstorm some additional business ideas to become profitable.
The goal is to see if a Cooperative structure could turn a network of 10 host owners into a competitive advantage. My personal proposal would be to follow the example of Digital Ocean in turning a datacenter into a new way to offer cloud options.
A Cooperative may give 10 individual owners the ability to raise the capital that only VCs currently seem to use to do something big like create new cloud ideas.
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Wow what an offer
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you forgot INSURANCE.
also hostboards has no visitors let alone any potential ad revenue stream when you have already outlined that the 10 founding members would get ads on the site. Not a lot of room left over.
I presume you get a discounted share for turning over the domain names and the website.
You still haven't answered who you are and who your associate is.
How are you going to raise capital in the coop - it has nothing- it has a theme and no other intellectual property and no aggregation of tech talent.
I don't get a discounted share for contributing the 2 domains. I pay $400 like everyone else.
The 3 building's have liability insurance (in case someone gets hurt on the property) that doesn't come out of the Cooperative's bank account.
If the Cooperative votes to build a datacenter, they will need to add additional riders for fire insurance and other important coverages from the lessons learned at OVH SGB2.
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THE COOP NEEDS INSURANCE FOR DIRECTORS AND FOR ITS OPERATING DECISIONS - nothing to do with the fact that your vacant building has insurance
Agreed with the D/O insurance without a doubt.
The hope is that the most important thing to come out of the Cooperative is an aggregation of tech talent to stimulate new streams of income.
What other ways might a network of hosts work together in a Cooperative to benefit the group?
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Who is this developer? Why ISPConfig when everyone is using direct admin?
@Offshore_Solutions 1) Represents who you are
2) what you have done
3)Offer financial protection for any possible SCAM strategy
Clear and simple
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Since Direct Admin is not open source, we are limited in what we can develop for it.
Does Direct Admin allow outside Developers to sell themes for it? Otherwise Direct Admin would be great to use if it wasn't proprietary.
The 2 of us believe that ispconfig is the best open source control panel to start with and it's consistently updated and maintained. The code is strong and it has less security issues than other open source panels.
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You still won't answer who you are and who your associate is.
To cut to the bottom line- here is 173 pages to give you step 1 in understanding the enormity of the task. Follow its steps.
https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/---emp_ent/---coop/documents/publication/wcms_644711.pdf
and go to
start.coop - there are about 10 people on their leadership team (all with twitter links).
build a plan the right way, capitalize the right way, execute the right way.
Probably because he has shown weird fondness for "free" and "open source" stuff on the other forum.
The guy had to show his true face at one point. I will say he showed it a lot sooner than I expected. Well, summer is coming after all.
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At least the summer hosts are risking their OWN money.
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@Chievo In the end most summer hosts risk paypal's money due to refunds