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Servers

Its been 30 Days since I started BitCoreHosting.com and I have learned a ton about the web hosting market. Without further adue I present 5 Rules for A Startup Webhosting Company:

1.Start out Small
 When selling my hosting, I noticed that I barley got any sales. As I said start out small. You don’t need a huge dedicated server for the first month you start out. Start with a reseller or VPS and work your way up!

2.Promotion is Everything
The only way your going to get people to buy your service is by letting people know its out there. You are up against a ton of competitors! Advertising is almost everything. If no one visits your site, how are you going to make sales?

3.You Must Give Up Some Time
Webhosting is a serious business. If you are ever going to succeed then you must put a ton of time into your company! Most of this time should be spent promoting or working on your website.

4.You Must Invest Some Money
As in most things in life, there are several limiting factors that limit your abiley to do things. One is money. Do you want to know why a web host started by a 13 year old fails within a month? Not investing enough money and time. You need to be dedicated to your company and are required to invest some money to start it out. This is the only way you will succeed. Areas of investment would be buying Ad space on websites. using google AdWords, hiring people to do live chat(possibly paying them a commission), and most importantly buying a server to resell.

5.Don’t Over - Oversell
Never promise your clients more than you can realistically deliver to them. If you have a reseller account with 5GB of disk space, don’t start selling accounts with 100GB of space.. At least have an account that’s around 100GB if you want to do this. Most of the time people only use around 1GB of space when hosting a website, so overselling can be a good thing. Also monitor your client’s disk space usage and make sure to upgrade your reseller or buy more disk’s for your server if space is running low.

Well thats it, hope I have passed on some of my aquired knowlage so you won’t make the same mistakes I did.

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Backtrack

I have finaly figured out to get QEMU to run Backtrack 3 using Windows as the Host OS.

Here’s what I did:

1. Downloaded the lastest stable version of BackTrack(Currently version 3), you may optionaly download the USB version for more features.
2. Download QEMU Make sure you download the Windows version!
3. Uncompress QEMU & copy the Backtrack ISO into the same directory
4. Make a new file called BTboot.bat open it and copy this into it: qemu -L . -std-vga -localtime -soundhw all -m 512 -cdrom *.iso -hda linux.img -boot d 
5. Now edit *.iso to the name of the Backtrack iso
6. Run the newly created file
7. While Backtrack is at the boot screen, select a graphics mode(KDE or Flux) and press Tab
8. Change the line autoexec=xconf;kdm to autoexec=kdm
9. Now press enter and ENJOY!!

Hope everything worked out correctly, If not just post a comment and I will try to help you. Heck, just post a comment anyways :) 

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Got a great new idea for a website.  A Gamemaker Free-Lancing style website for GM Users. Ill post some previews of the site soon :).

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