Thanks Frank. That's what I was kind of figuring as I was running it through my mind from different angles. But your comments help me to know I'm thinking of it correctly. I'll run it through its paces for the next 6 months to a year, and see what comes of it. I'll create the pages, optimize them and promote them, and treat it like I would any other site I'd like to make sales on, and see how it goes.

In the meantime, I'll pray that GDI beefs up their web hosting arsenal a bit. And I'll read up on what their history has been with adding features (perhaps I could get a job with them and develop some PHP utilities, or at least integrate some others ).

I'll also need to find out more about what exactly their hosting services are... There's quite a bit that's not on the /hosting page.

Thanks again.

Well, I'm kind of sad now. I was getting into all this .ws hosting stuff, what with the "everyone can have a web page now" take on things. But it seems, you can have web pages if you 1) want a fairly simple and static site, or 2) are willing to take the time to figure out how to either force things or find workarounds.

I admit I was lulled into this by a friend of mine, but the first thing I found was the name I wanted was already taken...  Then I find out I have to provide my SSN. Then I find there's no MySQL (a BIG requirement for me). What PHP modules are availble (I noticed it appears to be running 4.4)? There is or isn't support for a CGI-driven script? Then there are aspects of the very few pre-built features don't work (feedback plug-in, for one).

It just seems the bells and whistles and selling/marketing aspects of a real hosting service just aren't there. The focus is on the business side, and I'd just really prefer to be a hosting reseller, allowing those that want to pursue the business side to do so.

Perhaps I'm a minority in here, and most everyone else here is also present for the business aspects. Perhaps the percentage of those looking to do full-fledged web sites are in the minority here. It just seems the more I read, the more I'm finding this may not be ready for serious web developers/programmers. It was built and is being marketed around its network marketing business aspects, and I'm more of a web developer than a business-person...

I guess my hopes of this being for everyone were a bit short lived... I mean, aside from the business aspect, what makes .ws hosting better than say, hostasaurus, where, although you get half the bandwidth, you get twice the storage, a mysql database, and all for only $6.50 per month?

Could someone please let me know if I'm off track here?

Thanks.

Hi there,

Guess I'll be spending my first week or two reading up and finding out what I just signed on to. I don't typically sign on to things I haven't read, but my upline did his best to explain it, and I trust him.

The only part I was (and still am) mostly concerned with was providing my SSN. For one, doesn't that only apply to those in the US? For two, I thought the government was supposed to be trying to get away from using that as an identifier, yet it said the government is the reason it had to be supplied... I'm guessing b/c we're considered 1099 eligible or something to that extent. I don't recall having to supply it for Google AdWords, or for CommunityJunction. But I could be wrong and just don't remember.

Guess although that was my only concern, its a doozy. 

Anyways, just saying hi from Dallas, TX USA.

Thanks.

Keith D Commiskey