{"id":172,"date":"2007-09-27T23:36:14","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T03:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/09\/27\/hosting-ideas\/"},"modified":"2007-09-27T23:36:14","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T03:36:14","slug":"hosting-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/09\/27\/hosting-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosting Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a lot of excess capacity on this server.\u00a0 The &#8216;basic&#8217; hosting industry is shot to hell: $3 for 100 GB of disk space and unlimited bandwidth might be considered expensive. (It goes without saying that they won&#8217;t actually let you use that much.)<\/p>\n<p>But here are a few markets that aren&#8217;t touched on enough:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>Personal selling and hand-holding to businesses that don&#8217;t have websites. Three thoughts here:\n<ul>\n    <li>$50 a month is a normal business expenses. Someone who comes and talks to them and gets them their very own domain name? That&#8217;s practically a bargain! I bet their credit card processing bill is at least five times as much, and that their phone bill is at least twice as much.<\/li>\n    <li>The type of sites I&#8217;m talking would be static content, and wouldn&#8217;t even need to be updated more than a few times a year.<\/li>\n    <li>Keeping a live mirror on another server would be awesome, and it&#8217;s something almost no one does.<\/li>\n    <li>Web design (and product photography!) could be offered for additional costs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n    <li>Hosted services. There are people out there who want a blog and their own domain. $5 a month is entirely reasonable and in the &#8220;Why not?&#8221; category of expenses. But they&#8217;d get nothing but access to their own WP blog and some space to upload posted files. They couldn&#8217;t set it up themselves, which would permit a few things:\n<ul>\n    <li>Security: they&#8217;ll all be running the most up-to-date version.<\/li>\n    <li>Caching: Default WordPress gets 4 hits per second after rigorous benchmarking. Unsurprisingly, many &#8216;untuned&#8217; servers go down very quickly when they get linked to. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d survive digg, but I can at least improve things.<\/li>\n    <li>Convenience for the customer!<\/li>\n    <li>Theoretically, reduced disk access if I could install it once and have everyone else work off symlinks. This is probably more trouble than it&#8217;s worth in practice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n    <li>&#8216;Personal&#8217; wikis. I keep a MediaWiki install for my class notes. It also now houses my to-do list, a wishlist, and a list of gift ideas, among with various other thoughts. It&#8217;s an incredibly handy way to set things up. Plus, by virtue of being a <em>personal<\/em> wiki, it&#8217;s not going to get a lot of traffic. Again, something like $5 a month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have the energy or time right now to aggressively pursue these. But I think all 3 would work pretty well.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a lot of excess capacity on this server.\u00a0 The &#8216;basic&#8217; hosting industry is shot to hell: $3 for 100 GB of disk space and unlimited bandwidth might be considered expensive. (It goes without saying that they won&#8217;t actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/09\/27\/hosting-ideas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computers","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}