So yeah, discussion has been going on with the staff about the issue, so I figured I would bring it up to the users to hear what they think about the issue, I mainly would be the first number one provider of shared hosting services, just to show everyone what a host could be, It's currently not allowed by the rules, and what would everyone have to lose? You can't expect everything you would with paid but at least reliable services, and no costs to you, unless you wanted to upgrade with the host. I believe this would be a main reason for hosts to offer free services is for them to try it and use it and when they see it's very fast, reliable they will end up upgrading to a larger package or getting a server from them in the long run.
What do you think and what would be the pros/cons of it?
One thing I will admit is you really have zero to lose except bad services, you can't expect support or fast support due to the overhead costs of things but at least you aren't out any money if they do end up going down, or going out.
I hope they do start making a lot of changes in the rules and how hosts operate, a few things I was thinking of is having hosts that sell on here must have a business license, or registered with the irs or registered with a country it's located in or ran out of, list if they re-sell another providers services, if they co-locate if so proof, or if they are doing something different then list it, list employee's that work for the company by first/last name so if someone does screw someone or they screw the company people will have an idea who to sue or go after or if they need to sue the company at least someone will get traced down to something they used, one major thing I was thinking is having them submit a digital copy by copier, camera, scanner of the owners or person selling/running the company's drivers license, idenification card, or something showing who they are, where they live, and at least a city/state, I would block out there exact address but keep this for the staff incase something going wrong you will have something to turn to, and mask out license number(even from staff) or anything you think should be personal, This way if something bad does happen, someone can contact the staff, they can verify the company is offline, or ripping the person off and proof they were/are a customer then the staff member submit the person's full name, and city/state so he could file a lawsuit against the company or person. If you were to ever do this rule, I would make it so only a certain amount of people could access this data due to the high sensitivity of it have like only the TOP 2 staff members that are active only the one's that can receive or access this data, and submit the information to the customers.
One more major thing I wanted to do and I'm sure others would agree would to have it so there is a team like "HOSTING ENFORCEMENT TEAM" which would review new hosts, or reviews on hosts randomly, so when they submit there information about there company, the team or a set person would check to see if they are telling the true about, re-selling, co-locating(verifying with data-center or some other method), if they own ip space, how many data-centers they are with, if they had any previous companies or worked for any, any current or previous issues with customers, verify if there billing panel is legit or not, see if the site is secured or any problems with the site like errors/ordering problems(test the order system), see if they are a registered business with a state/government/irs, see if they use private whois data, verify phone numbers work/emails/tickets/live chat, if they say they have 24/7 support then test it by submitting test tickets or something similar to that.
Well thanks for reading about what I have to say and some improvements that I really think could weed out all the bad hosts, or hosts that state something and do something completely different, please let me know of what you think on all the issues, and if you agree or disagree with anything, including any input to help out the staff, customers, and even help the hosts.
What do you think and what would be the pros/cons of it?
One thing I will admit is you really have zero to lose except bad services, you can't expect support or fast support due to the overhead costs of things but at least you aren't out any money if they do end up going down, or going out.
I hope they do start making a lot of changes in the rules and how hosts operate, a few things I was thinking of is having hosts that sell on here must have a business license, or registered with the irs or registered with a country it's located in or ran out of, list if they re-sell another providers services, if they co-locate if so proof, or if they are doing something different then list it, list employee's that work for the company by first/last name so if someone does screw someone or they screw the company people will have an idea who to sue or go after or if they need to sue the company at least someone will get traced down to something they used, one major thing I was thinking is having them submit a digital copy by copier, camera, scanner of the owners or person selling/running the company's drivers license, idenification card, or something showing who they are, where they live, and at least a city/state, I would block out there exact address but keep this for the staff incase something going wrong you will have something to turn to, and mask out license number(even from staff) or anything you think should be personal, This way if something bad does happen, someone can contact the staff, they can verify the company is offline, or ripping the person off and proof they were/are a customer then the staff member submit the person's full name, and city/state so he could file a lawsuit against the company or person. If you were to ever do this rule, I would make it so only a certain amount of people could access this data due to the high sensitivity of it have like only the TOP 2 staff members that are active only the one's that can receive or access this data, and submit the information to the customers.
One more major thing I wanted to do and I'm sure others would agree would to have it so there is a team like "HOSTING ENFORCEMENT TEAM" which would review new hosts, or reviews on hosts randomly, so when they submit there information about there company, the team or a set person would check to see if they are telling the true about, re-selling, co-locating(verifying with data-center or some other method), if they own ip space, how many data-centers they are with, if they had any previous companies or worked for any, any current or previous issues with customers, verify if there billing panel is legit or not, see if the site is secured or any problems with the site like errors/ordering problems(test the order system), see if they are a registered business with a state/government/irs, see if they use private whois data, verify phone numbers work/emails/tickets/live chat, if they say they have 24/7 support then test it by submitting test tickets or something similar to that.
Well thanks for reading about what I have to say and some improvements that I really think could weed out all the bad hosts, or hosts that state something and do something completely different, please let me know of what you think on all the issues, and if you agree or disagree with anything, including any input to help out the staff, customers, and even help the hosts.
