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Entrepreneur Idea - EVE Online Corporation Website Hosting Network
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Ambar Khardula
Doomheim
#1 - 2014-08-11 04:38:25 UTC
I'd first like to say that if this isn't the right kind of thread for this board or any like it please let me know so I don't make the mistake again.

I spent a good amount of time today scouting out perspective website hosts for my new corporation. After looking through things like Weebly, Webs, Enjin, and other similar freebie sites I decided that they did not give me the control I want for the website.

What I am, or want to propose is this, we create a hosting venture to host corporation websites. ISK based primarily with real world contributions as a possibility. It would be a big project and I'd love to talk with people about it. We could even create a chat channel in game.

Any thoughts? Ideas?
Kuroi Aurgnet
Celestial Phoenix Industries
#2 - 2014-08-11 06:03:05 UTC
It would be neat, but, as a fellow computer nerd- not feasible to run off isk donations alone. No amount of free sub time is going to cover the costs of running a server, much less the dedicated line you would need to have an upload speed high enough to service a lot of people. also, servers cost upwards of a few thousand dollars, and if you are planning on any of these sites having third party tools that access eve a pi data or anything like that( which people will inevitably want) then you'll need a pretty strong server.

Tldr a cool idea but unless you're swimming in money, not feasible. use name.com, I used them before for web hosting, and they were pretty good, and cheap too

Just that hint of cynicism the world needs now and then.