Staminus 3+ Year Review

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This web hosting thread started by felosi 0n 30 October 2009

I’m not sure if I ever posted a staminus review before. I know I always meant to but anyway, here is my 3+ year review of staminus.net.

Prelude
I started my hosting company in Aug 2005. It first started with a site I had that got pretty popular and I needed to get a dedicated server cause I was getting kicked off shared hosts and the ones I didn’t get kicked off of were fly by night ops that quickly folded. So I get the box and all and start learning about linux and everything else. My first server was at rackmounted.com – a truly great bunch of people that helped me in every way and never lost patience with me. I will never forget the guys there.

The first few months I had enough site donations to pay for the server but I eventually spent more time experimenting and learning my linux desktop and server that I didn’t update the site much no more. Then the donations came to an end. Then I started selling hosting under felosi-inc.net domain. I ended up getting enough clients to pay for the server and then some. By that time I was spending all my time on hosting related things that I pretty much abandoned the site. Now I was hosting full time.

I quickly found out that it was very hard to compete with regular hosters. The people I knew and myself always was having problems with ddos so I decided to specialize in ddos protected hosting. At first it worked out but eventually I had to leave rackmounted because they didn’t have ddos protection. This is where my journey for a good network began.

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