6 month review of WiredTree.com June 19, 2008
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I have been with WiredTree.com for around six months and I praise the very floor they walk on, they have been very consistent in the time they have set to respond to tickets, it seems their time limit is 15 minutes however I’ve always noticed them reply in just 5 - 10 minutes. - Which is astounding for such provider to offer such unique service, from which I have not seen elsewhere with all the moving of providers I have been doing; they are by far the best service I have ever been with! The six months I have been with them, there was no downtime which I could evidently see in front of myself, unless the actual server was having problems; all you’d have to do is contact them they would fix it. What makes me personally feel comfortable with WiredTree is that they give pro-active support which is awesome as it takes that feeling of your website going down out the window and if there is ever a time which it does go down, in a few minutes it will be up or an explanation given seeing as they literally reply to you in minutes.
Now I currently only have 1 VPS with them and I’m ordering a hybrid server - now I would usually only pick companies which offer dedicated servers as I’m not to keen in sharing a server with others (With other services running on it) though with the service they have provided me, there is no room for complaint; they provide a competent service which they don’t fuss around with. e.g. they do their job with pure professionalism and there is also a personal touch as if you were there only customer as they are just literally replying to you at such a fast rate; it’s as if they should have an instant messenger support available (I wish)! Well, just think of this scenario:
Say if you were having a really bad day and your VPS/Server was just constantly going wrong due to yourself making changes to the core of the files in your OS system - they would literally be the ‘knights in shining armour coming to pick you up and fix you’ or in this term they would fix or enhance upon the changes you made!
They are what we call a ‘Quality provider’! Some may think they are expensive however I believe ‘you get what you pay for’ and they aren’t that expensive, to be honest, they are actually quite cheap if you start comparing them against other providers who offer the same kind of service. e.g. a competing service. Literally if you want a backbone behind you, which what I mean is something you can fall back on if you can’t fix something; then go with WiredTree as they have provided me sufficient backbone in order to provide a running service which I did have and still am running with clients who I now host for free, since Vlexo went totally free as of early this month, though in heart we have always been a free provider! Since my last host who I was co-owner of went bust to the actual owner not being able to afford payments after 1 year of being up and was still on a reseller account with this flimsy (In my opinion) reseller host; I wanted to make a difference with Vlexo and I made sure I was able to afford running it. - With WT it has made this possible as a lot of costs have been cut with providers charging over the moon with a less impressive service in my opinion from my personal experience.
Now I tried to go even cheaper with my free users (Which was wrong; not morally however) as WT provided a much better service for a much better price; considering what I was getting and the level of service which was/is being provided. I’m thankful that such service is around as I bet I’ll be using their service for the next 5 years if not more if ‘they’ or ‘I’ are still around! 
Just to make this clear, we have had some recent network downtime (Or our free users have) as they are still with the ‘old’ budget provider I was with, however we are moving fast away from this provider and migrating to WiredTree.com! Nevertheless we still use and have services with WiredTree!
Thanks for reading my review of WT, they trully deserve it!
-Jonathan Jones
Enjoying hosting December 5, 2007
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I’m currently enjoying web hosting, especially at Vlexo.com, when we moved over to our new provider, things just simply got better. Due to the fact, that I am now thinking more logically, instead of having this cloud of judgment out there - and due to the other fact that the server(s) that we have now are much more powerful, meaning we can offer more than we used to and with a lot more confidence - due to the 0 downtime network we are on, with WiredTree.com.
We even got this amazing review from one of our free users:
http://borisoft.vlexo.net/vlexo.html
http://forum.vlexo.com/showthread.php?p=14735#post14735
These reviews mean so much to me, and I just enjoy reading such reviews and when a free user even takes the time to make a page for us. Now that’s how things should be.
Buying websites with revenue November 25, 2007
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Hello,
So I haven’t made a post in quite sometime, perhaps what I’m trying to do as a Webmaster, may give you a cause of concern in terms of what I’m trying to-do.
I’m looking at websites, websites that can generate me some cash, I do know this will cost a lot of money, however I believe that if I can buy a website which can do this, I can of course recoup the amount spent on the initial cost of the website, depending on how much revenue this particular website costs. So money would not be the problem, if this ‘particular website’ was able to re-generate my money.
I’m currently holding my budget at $300-500 USD. Sure it’s not that much, however I’m not looking for something fantastic. I’m looking for something nice and something which I feel is unique and special, which usually costs a lot of money, however I’m generally looking for something nice. With the money, I could instead make my own website, though I’m looking for something which brings in some traffic; already.
Websites which make money and cost a lot are a huge investment, they could be the paying for your web hosting/dedicated server, or they could literally be feeding you. However with myself, it would be paying in towards my dedicated server bills. — So perhaps an investment into a website will be a good thing? I’ve searched on various forums and websites, however I have not found anything.
FlickCabin.com February 5, 2007
Posted by Jonathan in : Internet, My Sites, Webmaster , 1 comment so far
I recently bought a website, called FlickCabin.com it is a image hosting website for graphic designers and people with images that they need to upload to the the web. I bought the website for a good price, I mean it’s got a unique design and it’s PageRank 3, the content is also not re-used as it’s also unique, I added a few pages to it though, for SEO purposes and for a larger website if and when I come to sell the site. I hope to monetize the website with Google AdSense and I think Adbrite, to see how much money I can make with this site. All this website needs is a huge upstream of traffic, I can achieve this by posting this site on forums and even emailing people *my freinds* about the site.
I hope I can some people here, that can review the site for me and tell me what they think. I’m just loving the design of this website, I wont tell you how much I paid, but it wasn’t much. - But I’m telling you, what I paid is nothing compared to how much this website is worth. I’ll update you with anymore information about the site in the news section (http://flickcabin.com/news.php)