Genii 2.0 has been launched!

[The Killing Joke]

Friends,

I would like to invite you to the grand relaunching of Genii Development, where we have re-focused the company to provide the best Website Hosting Packages and most creative Website Design Services available in the industry.

Visit our newly updated website here, www.genii.ca (http://www.genii.ca), which has been completed reinvented using Adobe Flash as the flagship of our Company.

We have recently reduced our Yearly Hosting Package to $99.99 per year (down from $149.99 per year) and would like to offer the Members of the Northern Resistance Forums a special Referral Bonus of $20 for any New Customer you bring, who purchases our Yearly Hosting Package from us.

All of our Website Design Services are completely customized to the Customer's requirements, and for referrals that lead to a New Customer purchasing our design services, we will be paying a 10% Referral Bonus calculated on the full price of the completed work.

If you have any questions, please feel free to send me an E-Mail (mailto:rick@genii.ca?subject=Information Requested! (from the Northern Resistance Forums.)), or post them here.

Thank you.

[enderxeno]

eer, there's no web hosting information on your site.
what do you get for 100 bucks???

[The Killing Joke]

Glad you asked.

We offer a full year of website and e-mail hosting, including configuration of E-Mail accounts if you have them. If you don't have a website currently, we can register your domain name for you at an additional cost, or you can do it yourself.

You will be provided server space for your site, as well as admin access via FTP to upload your site to the servers. If you've registered a domain name (i.e. www.yourcompany.com) we host it, as well as configure your E-Mail accounts (i.e. yourname@yourcompany.com) as you require them.

[null]

Best of luck to you and whomever you're running this thing with. There's a lot've competition out there for this sort've business. ;[

[The Killing Joke]

Best of luck to you and whomever you're running this thing with. There's a lot've competition out there for this sort've business. ;[

You've got that right - I've seen (and worked with) a tonne of people who have a good sense of business, development, and design 'flair', and then suddenly, when they try to put it all together, something gets missed. (I also know of a few businesses in my local area who everybody thinks are top notch, and I've seen their work, which isn't up to the level at which it's being percieved - in my opinion.)

I'm trying to provide the best of both worlds - inexpensive hosting ($8 and change a month is fantastic) and professional web design - so that people can have that level of professionalism they're looking for, without spending the huge prices that other "Premium" providers charge.

[Derfel]

Do you offer exchange email access?

[The Killing Joke]

Do you offer exchange email access?

We do use Microsoft Exchange for the E-Mail Server, yes.

Are you asking if we provide an 'E-Mail Only' service, if you don't have a website? If so, we do, and this service is only $39.99 per year (just over $3 a month) per Domain, per 50 E-Mail Accounts.

If you add E-Mail accounts later, we charge Administration fees in 1/4 hour increments of $14.99 per 1/4 hour. (So, it's usually better to provide us with a 'block' of E-Mail addresses at a time, if you can.)

Regardless, you can also access your E-Mail via Outlook Web Access, so you're not restricted to installing a Client on your computer to receive E-Mail.

[Derfel]

We do use Microsoft Exchange for the E-Mail Server, yes.

Are you asking if we provide an 'E-Mail Only' service, if you don't have a website? If so, we do, and this service is only $39.99 per year (just over $3 a month) per Domain, per 50 E-Mail Accounts.
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That's sounds... tempting. My current host charges $5/month for hosting, but also $5/month per email address for exchange access. I like getting my updates on my phone via Activesync, so for $3/50 email addresses, that's VERY tempting.

What are the bandwidth limits?

[The Killing Joke]

What are the bandwidth limits?

So far - the ISP hosting our Servers haven't ever complained about bandwidth, so at the present time, I would say that there are 'no limits'... We receive a limit of somewhere between 150-750GB transfer per month for the server, but I've never seen it enforced.

As an aside - how do you like our quick Customer Service?

:))

[Derfel]

As an aside - how do you like our quick Customer Service?

:))


This isn't customer service, this is marketing. ;)

But here's my profile - I host two instances of "Moodle" on my current host, which requires SQL access and updated PHP, etc etc. I use 23 email addresses currently, but occasionally have to bump that up to over 50 (my host allows 1200). My storage is approx 700MB, with about 2-3GB of bandwidth transfer a month. But about twice a year, that spikes to 80-90GB per WEEK of transfer because of video hosting.

I have two domain names, with 1000 subdomains possible.

I currently pay $5/month for this. If I was to add mobile exchange to one email address, that would be $10/month.

Can you match that?

[enderxeno]

Let me offer you some advice though....

There's still no technical information on your website.
Your website didn't leave any information on it. I infact had to ASK someone, you, technicalities.

What's the bandwidth? how many megs of storage do you get? linux? windows? how many databases can I use? etc.

That information should be on your website.. it's kinda bad if you don't have it, and have to be asked - because other webhosting companies have all that on the front page. :)
so, 100 bucks for what?

[The Killing Joke]

But here's my profile - I host two instances of "Moodle" on my current host, which requires SQL access and updated PHP, etc etc. I use 23 email addresses currently, but occasionally have to bump that up to over 50 (my host allows 1200). My storage is approx 700MB, with about 2-3GB of bandwidth transfer a month. But about twice a year, that spikes to 80-90GB per WEEK of transfer because of video hosting.

If this (http://moodle.org/) is what you're speaking of, let me do some investigation. Personally, I have no experience with it, but that's not to say it can't be integrated, if it's a Customer requirement.

I have two domain names, with 1000 subdomains possible.

I currently pay $5/month for this. If I was to add mobile exchange to one email address, that would be $10/month.

Can you match that?

How do you currently achieve the maintenance of domains/subdomains with your current provider? I know more than a few hosts use cPanel or Plesk for management, but we currently manage our Servers directly.

Overall, if we can integrate Moodle into the server (we have PHP and mySQL running), accommodate a large E-Mail Account base (I can commit to ~100, atm), and manage two Domain Names with the standard E-Mail/Mobile Exchange for all accounts, the Yearly Rate of $99.99 would still provide you an effective monthly cost of $8.33... ...would you be interested?

(Of course - I could see the 'server management' question, above, being a big part of the equation, if you need more direct ability to make changes on the fly.)

Let me offer you some advice though...

All good recommendations - I appreciate the feedback. The site is a 'work in progress', and I'm going to work on integrating the information people are looking for. Thank you!

[Derfel]

That (Moodle) is exactly what I'm talking about.

Pretty much - if I can have about 2GB of space with FTP access, with 1000GB of transfer a month (maximum, not all the time), mySQL access, and 50 or so email addresses with mobile exchange access... I'd be willing to pay $9/month for that.

I'm with 1and1 right now.

[The Killing Joke]

That (Moodle) is exactly what I'm talking about.

I'll get back to you shortly with info on it - I don't see it being a big issue.

I'm with 1and1 right now.

That's one thing I wanted to make note of - a lot of Web Hosting Businesses are subsets of Domain Registrars or ISPs, and with good reason. They have unlimited bandwidth to provide, and go completely by a 'quantity of customer' model to make a profit. Genii Development is not an ISP or Domain Registrar at heart - and we try to be more personal and professional, making sure our Servers aren't overloaded with hundreds of web hosts, applications and services, so that our Customers aren't experiencing lag or other issues.

I'm not saying all Domain Registrars or ISPs do this, but I've visited more than enough of them to view the impersonal 'call centre' method by which a lot of Customers get frustrated - never talking to the same person twice, and having to repeat their requirements each and every time they have a new conversation.

Sorry if I seem to be ranting - I'd like Genii to continue to grow, and my personal opinion is that by bringing professional grade support with a personal touch (see: understanding customer requirements) that this is the way to go.

:))