From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jul 29 11:34:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wanlogistics.net (mail.wanlogistics.net [63.209.114.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5564F37B6D6 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 11:33:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@mail.wanlogistics.net) Received: (from bill@localhost) by mail.wanlogistics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA94370 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 14:33:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bill) Message-Id: <200007291833.OAA94370@mail.wanlogistics.net> Subject: Marketing question To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 14:33:42 -0400 (EDT) From: bv@wjv.com Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Reply to: bv@wjv.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit After what seemed an interminable wait we finally have our racks coming up in the Orlando Level-3 facility. Our target is dedicated hosting - but not in the low-end area. Once you get known - eg Exodus and the like - people can come to you - but does anyone have any effective marketing ideas they'd care to share to get the word out at first. When I say 'low-end' about I'm talking about those who advertise dedicated machines at $299/month. Our thought is offering guarnteed 1.5Mbs service on a machine that is entirely for the use of the client, with 256MB/ECC 100Mb/ethernet cards and mid-sized Hd for about $850. That means there are no suprises on bandwidth charges, etc. Currently we get 100Mbit burstable into their switch and can move to gigabit when we cross the 50Mbit threshold for 95%. By that time their OC48 should be at OC-192. Considering the complaints we had heard about some of the co-location facilities on a local-are basis - eg non-responsive customer service - machines down long than they should be - we felt there would be people who would pay for commerical/industrial type hosting. Or do you think we are off-base on that - eg paying for quality. We're running FreeBSD on machines we set up - though one client has a dual-Sparc Sun running a database backend to Apple G4 front end [WebObject]. I'm open to all suggestions. Bill Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message