what they're effectively doing is just doing euthanasia to a business that showed too much success
yep and also going along with their first reason for joining not going against it:
They go broke or disappear overnight within 2-4 months of opening. (Because owner started or purchased free hosting for sole reason of making tons of money with it. And quickly realizing he's got competitors and free hosting industry is tough as nails to make money with -- he simply lost motivation, enthusiasm and closed the site down. Or because lack of knowledge on how to keep it alive or fight against constant service abuse.)
instead of the time frame given they are going to go under in 5 years after opening if not sooner as when did 110 open? i forget now...
One (eLabs) is based on server administration for other companies or services, hosting, and C#/PHP/MySQL programming.
The other (Speed Success, Inc.) is based on distributing and creating thousands of products a year via mail order and internet marketing, self-help & eBay coaching and worldwide dropshipping.
2 companies joined together mean:
Huge amounts of funds to run 110MB infrastructure. (Impossible to go bankrupt)
110MB hosting has a team of Linux, Solaris and Windows administrators to keep it running during the toughest technical challenges.
I have a few questions Andre...
1. DID your two supposed parent companies grant this change? if not did you at least tell them? as if they are supporting you they really should know about this.
2. what happened to "HUGE" founds?
3. Why do you think your (or 110) is invisible to bankruptcy? MS a HUGE ASS company just laid off people BECAUSE THEY ARE LOSING MONEY... and yes THEY CAN GO BANKRUPT TOO!!! so why cant 110?
You expect your feature enhancement, service improvement or complaint to be heard, right!
And that's why 110mb's top priority is to constantly listen to members demands, and make them happen within 5-7 days. (Can take up to 15 depending complexity of programming or integration.)
You and I both know there's nothing more peeving then writing to a company and getting some total nonsense corporate response like "We can't do X during this time because Y. We, we, we, we...". What the hell!
Have you heard any demands for FTP being reissued as "Free" yet? if not either the people who signed up dont need/use it or most likely they have moved on
So chances are the only people you can really listen too are the oldies here on the forum. as i believe every day with out FTP free is making 110 loose customers.
i looked at the forums registration #s and i doubt you got 900+ users signing up today... and if you did how many actually stay/ed? also i did not remove the ones that will be deleted for rule reasons...
on a final note B16 approx registrations were about this or more a month... but since you did not start till late to register users for the forum as well i only have nov decs # to base upon. and based upon the numbers per day its higher but also remember B16 was closed the near end of jan so that explains the increase this month and how many people wanting on B16 expecting to get the stats as B16 offers? thats how many people you just let down plus if you get a average of 1 404 page per person signing up at least once that leads to a 5% siging up rate you do the math and thats how much lost income/registers you have lost and possible upgrades. as why pay for something when you were expecting to get it free any how?\
And as tawg states you really should remove the affiliate images if your going to keep this and change them. and what about all the sites still with the old images? what about those visitors what about the people affiliating them to 110? your making every one who has linked to you with the banner or the advert of 5GB space and 300GB bandwidth as lairs and deceivers when in reality you never clearly thought it threw (quite apparent) and so your the true deceiver so how i see it every one clicking and joining threw the affiliate program till fixed should get the stats as promised and if not its false advertising.
How false advertising?
Easy this is how:
You never sent out emails to notify ANY one about the change so they (if they are) can change their affiliate info and if they wish to continue.
You still have the old banners in the affiliate section of the CP which is misleading
Your .info site still has the old banner up
and im guessing since you did make the initial change with out haste or notice or all the changes needed i prob could right now call up B16/B17 provider and get them disconnected due to you getting hits and registrations with possible fraudulent and misleading advertising (or better yet just let the government do it
<< if the gov they might just shut down every thing
so just in case some twit comes along and reads this every one back up your stuff...)
what do you get for this? possible criminal offenses bla bla bla im sure you know the deal... but im nice im not going to report it (yet) and as long as you have even a trace of the advertising on your site (*cough affiliates*) it still can be classified as false advertising...
Note: removal of the pics in the topic and display on the site aint enough... the pics must be either removed or changed names so it nulls out all people hot linking them... and have the decency to send out emails to all users before B17 notifying the change so that way you dont loose more people then you already have...
and since you have 2 boxes in Canada and 3 in the USA you must follow the laws here too
hmmm thats allot to read sorry
