Corey said:
Well since I always seem to get advice and suggestions on things... if you ran x10 how would you do things differently?
-Corey
if i were you....
i would take cares and consider first of all the legal issues that may arise with hosting people's sites
secondly to make hosting sustainable
advertising is must.from each member 's site i expect tleast 10 banner ads at any place in their convenience but must be placed. i won't place any google adsense since it is the wide spread in world and every small to medium and even advanced webmaster looks for that. i take alernatives(this depends up on stats how well the total traffic comming to my member's sites...)
and target them onlycontextual advertising..(even if its somthing like banners system)
i would give away a domain for every 250 forum points but restrict only 1 domain per free account and 2 for premium accounts.
:
remium accounts:: they pay somthing like 1$* static, 2.5$** advanced 5$*** corporate all per month
must get atleast
*must purchase 1year hosting in advance to get free domain or can post in forum until 250 points for purchase a "free domain" in shop
**must purchase atleast 4 months hosting in advance or can post in forum until 100 points for purchase a "free domain" in shop
***must purchase 3 months hosting in advance or can post i forum until 50 points for purchse a "free domain" in shop
would use active account managers who can monitor all accounts and do regular checks whenever a webpage is updated by user.
in the case people wants to upgrade/downgrade their memberships ,all such things will be managed by "forum traders" on a stndard point conversion
"1 point =$0.10" .
besides all a good helping system is developed and redirected all firstregistrtion people to there.
if anyone violates rules ,account managers send them a courtesy note via PM , he doesn't respond within
seven days(the time in auto ccount deletion timer script) he will be deleted and mailed same with reason in email.
" Mod log":: this is a private place where all of your mods/account managers/forum traders should post their actions
Support team :: these people will help forum members reagarding any problems in hosting with the help of Mod log.
these are some of the few things i would develop.... i have to think for more...