Goscomb Tech

Is anyone else waiting to see if a new Mini will be released on Tuesday? We were planning on getting in some Mini's in to the office for testing, but were told (not by Apple) a new version may be released at Mac Expo and so are now holding off until then to see if there is a new, shinier, model to buy!

Also consider DirectAdmin (www.directadmin.com) which is far cheaper (and IMO far better, especially for lower end servers). It uses exim for email. The problem with installing any other panel now is that you will basically wipe your entire system config and have to start from scratch as they are designed to be installed on a fresh, empty, server.

As the topic says... hello! I joined this forum from seeing a link on another that I frequent. I represent Goscomb Technologies Limited, a mainly b2b network and hosting services provider based in the UK for those that don't know us. Looking forward to some good discussion!

The hosting market (especially shared/resller) is extremely saturated and very low margin. It is very hard to break in to these days. If you wish to get in to it in order to cover your costs i'd suggest you sell to friends and family if they need hosting. Whilst you like giving good support, do you also like being woken up to do just that at 2am, then again at 2.30am and yet again at 4am? If you are going to run the service on your own, you need to not sleep very much! Hiring staff, especially for 24x7 cover is not cheap. As others have said, if you intend to build a viable business from hosting, you will need a unique selling point; there are very few that people have not already thought of and are actively marketing! Bear in mind that you will also need to spend extra time on doing accounts and meeting all the new obligations that running a business entails. Its not a decision to be made lightly. If you do decide to go ahead, however... good luck!

it is good, but not 100% accurate. At the moment it puts me in London when i'm sat in Amsterdam!