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Business Web Hosting Service Models

As some of you might know by now, we have a new full service web offering that clubs design, hosting and managing plan at WP Pro, the concept brings in everything you need to design, build and operate a professional web site, without dealing with multiple service providers. In order to do so, we looked at other business web hosting service providers for ideas and found McKremie to be the one that made the most sense for the scale and personal attention to detail we were comfortable offering.

Since one size does not always fit all, McKremie offer two common sense hosting plans. The Standard Plan is the “everyone plan” and with disk space of 5,000 MB and bandwidth of 1,000 GB it accommodates most websites out there. But for the more serious and advanced user, developer or reseller, they offer a Business Plan with disk space of 15,000 MB and bandwidth of 3,000 GB that allows our customers to get more of the resources and the optional dedicated IP. With McKremie, you can save 20 percent by paying one year up-front on both of the web hosting plans, making this model a win-win for both the host and the user.

After studying the McKremie strategy, we adopted a single plan strategy at WPPro and allow our users to control every part of their site if needed. Since we host the domains and perform the maintenance on servers are powered and partly managed by Media Temple (mt) we can ensure a worry free hosting platform with instantaneous capability to burst/increase resources.

Sun acquires MySQL AB

mysql logosun microsystem logoThe billion dollar acquisition makes it the largest open source software deal ever and makes Sun the owner of a critical part of the popular LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Perl/Python/PHP) open source software stack!

This announcement reaffirms Sun’s position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor (even Solaris OS is available free and open source). This opens up MySQL to a whole new and exciting arena and is expected to gain new distribution through Sun’s channels including its OEM relationships with Intel, IBM and Dell.

Not HOT ENOUGH

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“Submit three pictures, one of which is a full-body picture and get rated on an attractiveness scale from 1-10.”

Is this a call for aspiring models to be hired by an ad agency? No.

‘HotEnough’, is an online dating site where prospective ‘fit’ and ‘good-looking’ members must submit pictures and must be rated 8 or higher on a scale of 1-10 by people already there in the club, before they get lucky to be part of the $9.95 monthly membership. This means if you look average or worse, you are out and even if you are good-looking, you stand only 20% chances of being called “hot”.

Duh! Every man dreams of hotties 36-24-36, but it’s evident that given a choice between a “dumb hottie” and a “not-so-goodlooking intelligent chick”, Jason Pellegrino would probably choose the dumber one, why bother checking out the less-goodlooking ones at all. Intelligence, compatiblity, compassion, other qualities, do they count? Guess not.

Some might call this discrimination shallow, but to qualify for a truly shallow website, Jason needs to add some features to the ‘attractiveness scale’ like:

  • Money
  • Mansion
  • Mercedes

If you can’t make it to the beauty contest, you can at least make it to “Jason’s Hot-o-meter”. Lame.