I just finished uploading and setting the permissions for all content here at BW.
The great thing is I can have a backup forum here with the real BW database and registry on a special Forum in its own. No existing Forums and no loss in action. You would just see all the other stuff disappear while the server is being moved and come back when it comes back online.
The only draw back is we wouldn't be able to take newly registered users under a temporary setting, however I was thinking of moving the site completely off the existing server and running it on the temporary server on a permanent basis without any interruptions except for the momentary final file transfer. That would take about an hour.
The past went like this:
In the past I was just running the service as a hobby and curtsy to the remaining customers on the system. I entertained the thought of selling the company and stuff to anyone who wanted it for less then a song and a dance. Pretty much I was asking $1,000 for everything. The persons I had discussed this with were not interested and also my wife got really mad at me and wouldn’t let me sell anything. I was not very interested in the company and just let it go. I am between 6 months and a year behind on my billing and at least one of my customers complained.
I kicked four major sites off the service owned by a Pennsylvania corporation just so I didn’t have to bill them anymore. I paid all the operation expenses out of my pocket without any income from the business. This has made my wife even angrier to a point.
JAISP was started as I had been in a partner relation with others in a company I started called Millennium Crew. I had designed several software packages, on of which Joe had developed for one of his clients, that I have never gain not even one penny for. The company got all proceeds from everything I developed with little return on their part. This caused hardships between the partners.
Millennium Crew was formed from a club called Tek2000 started by me in 1998 over the Internet. Five of its members including myself had decided to start our own company designing software for special needs applications and purchased equipment needed for development and testing of all the software.
During this time in 1999 our web host started doing stuff to make our sites NOT Work on the hosting system we were on. Since we all ready had our own web servers, DNS Servers, Email Servers, FTP Servers, and all other related aspects in operation for hosting and stuff we decided to migrate onto our development network and utilize our own services and no longer be held hostage by another company. In three days we were a fully legit web hosting company.
As time went on someone in the company decided that we could host other sites to make up for some of the costs of operating the network and equipment. So we started taking on customers. Still being the founder and major contributor to the business I never received one cent and still couldn’t get ahead. I at this time stopped developing software.
I registered JAISP and sold my shares silently to the other company who had someone else running it and calling the shots for the company, I was the spokesperson for the newly formed company. In the end the new company took over all operations of Millennium Crew, its software, and remaining customers and accounts. Thirty days later the person running JAISP turned over all operations and aspects of the company to me.
The current Day:
I have installed a very good commercial connection into my home and added a few static IP addresses. I built a new server setup and reconfigured my existing network in my home for full commercial usage. I have moved everything out of the small area into a room six times the size, added a complete UPS system, put in a real office complete with desk and chairs, and hired someone to sell space on my system on a commission basis.
Here is my plan:
Once again I am being held hostage in a slight manor by having equipment located in someone else’s location. This is the second time the company was sold and everything had to be moved and large changes had to be made.
My wife and I have decided that we were no longer going to be held hostage by anyone for any reason. If equipment breaks I have to pay someone to fix it several states away at $75 per hour plus parts and related expenses. This is not what I wish to have. If I call them on the phone they charge my credit card $15 to answer the phone. If I have a problem I have to put in a service ticket just to wait and have it fixed, at $75 per hour.
I have everything here in my home to re-locate my entire infrastructure here and run from my location sparing me all expenses other then normal operating cost’s, remember I am at least a year behind on my billing and floating this out of my pocket.
We intend to ad three more servers here and migrate everything here over the next nine months. We also intent to ad 16 more IP addresses to the net block and go full force into hosting web sites and real time content such as message boards, Virtual Reality Services, Streaming Audio, mIRC chat relays, and much more.
I will be saving $450 per month in the long run.
I quit my job working for a company close to home and had taken a new position doing what I do best, Communications and Access Control Systems. I fully now intend to build up JAISP and make it the vision I had in the beginning by providing web space for customers and designing firewall software for interactive content over the internet. JAISP will be moving forward and hopefully making money for the first time in its history in about two years. Wish me luck.
