Hello all,

I am currently interested in sponsoring 10-15 web host resource related sites, or other web sites that are expected to get a lot of visitors who are web hosts or are interested in becoming web hosts.

The accounts will be hosted on a server with the following specifications:
- Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz CPU w/ HT
- 1GB DDR SDRAM
- 80GB HDD w/ 80GB for daily backup
- RedHat 7.3
- CPanel 9.1
- Apache 1.3.29
- PHP 4.3.4
- Perl 5.6.1
- MySQL 4.0.18
- Fantastico 2.0

I am open to requests on disk space/bandwidth allowances, but all accounts will include the following:
- 50 POP3 Email Accounts
- 10 Mailing Lists
- 10 Sub Domains
- 10 FTP Accounts
- 10 MySQL Databases
- Cron tab
- CPanel X2 Theme
- All default CPanel features

The server is located in McLean, Verginia, in the award-winning ServInt Data Centre.

This will be COMPLETELY FREE until July 1st, 2004. At that point it will be required that you put my 468x60 banner into the mix on your site. If your site will also contain other banners and mine will just be rotated, a text link is required at the bottom of every page also. In cases where the site I am sponsoring is a web host resources directory style sitte, I may also be able to exchange the banner and/or text link for a paid listing in your directory or a sticky in your forums, etc.

Every week I will check that the banner/link/listings agreed to are still in place and immediately suspend any sites where they are not.

Every 6 months I will see what the sites are doing, how many visits each one is getting me and what the visits/sales percentage is. If any sites are doing particularly poorly, say less than 200 visits/month I MAY put their hosting offfering on hold for other sites. This check will be done every six months.

Please post all requests here along with an EMAIL or AIM for me to contact you.

Thank you!

I was interested until I read that.. Not worth the risk...Sponsoring something means just that, sometimes you have to take a loss from it. Not shut the persons site down.

I didn't say shut them down, I said put their hosting on hold. Firstly we would see what could be done to improve the clickthrough. Then we would simply put them on hold. We wouldn't advertise any sponsoring offers, etc., but if someone contacted us and had PROOF that their site was much more worthwhile, we would have to consider it. We would always give you a week of notice and would be willing to send you your site backed up on CD (or multiple CDs or DVDs if it is large) if we had to let you go.

Just as a note, your site, W3Reports does not display correctly on Safari on MacOS X Panther 10.3.3. Might want to check that out.

I don't have access to a MacOS with safari to test it out. It's all W3C compliant CSS and XML (except for the search box) So It has to be a browser problem.

Thank you for the heads up though.

Could well be a browser period - Safari is fairly new (September I think it was) and there are still a few bugs, I love the bug report system and I love even more the fact that they fix the bugs that get reported :)

Anyway, back on topic. Anyone ...?