CrYo

this seems very intresting

-What will they get assecc to??
-Are there reseller accounts avaible for people who might want to pay like 30/mon ??

itsmethee

itsmethee - I am VERY intrested. I have always wanted a dedicated server because it opens up so many possibilities. Put my name on the list for sure!

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itsmethee

The acounts pretty much would be resellers acounts if I am looking at this correctly. I am very intrested to hear back from surpass on the technical aspect.

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itsmethee

I know this is my third post in a row, but maybe I have a solution. It all revolves around one question though. In WHM, can Resellers have there own Resellers? If they can, then you can set us all up as a ressellers acount on the server. Then we would all have our sites and everything would be great.

Agian, THanks so much Surpass for considering this.

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Emmanuel

Unfortunately resellers can't make resellers even if you share a dedicated server.

In all honesty sharing a dedicated server is like sharing your computer people will have access to all your other files among each other.

This is why there is shared hosting and reseller hosting, it is basically a shared server, but we manage it and keep everything in order.

Dedicated server is meant for people who want their own thing their own deal Maybe sharing it between two people is an option but I don't know about 9 :no!:

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fwwebs5

In WHM you can assign a reseller root privledges, and therefore they can make resellers. But having 10 people with root access is most likely a bad idea. Who is going to admin the server?

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Kayla

My Idea 1:

• We provide this forum to help you find other users who are interested in a dedicated server.
• We will send out an email to our mailing list (thousands of people, some which may not even be clients yet) in about a month announcing this new idea, and to visit the forum for more information.
• We would only allow the server to be shared among 10 people or less. This means that if you already are close to 3 people, you could each pay a steeper price for the server monthly, but you would be very confident in your purchase and surely reep great benefits.
• The payment method would have to be by one PayPal account. You have to work the "financing" of the server out amongst yourselves. And for example, if 10 users shared the base server we offer, you would only pay $11 a month. The only cons would be, making sure the payment gets to the person in charge of the PayPal account, and not disrupting service of the server at ANY time as a courtesy to your neighbors (who are sacrificing privacy of their own dedicated server, in the interest of paying a lower price and acting responsibly with others who share a common need).
• Each user would have to sign a document that we will write up that explains each person is responsible for what pain they inflict on the server. If you cause the OS to need a reinstall or other work done after you've done something less than perfect, it would be a direct payment to us and your other server neighbors would not be involved.
• If the users of the server you are sharing are not that Linux savvy (yet!) there should be no way that your personal files (ones not displayed on your site in any way) will be viewed, unless they change your password. Changing passwords of someone else on the server is completely against the rules and you would be suspended from the server. Do not do anything harmful toward any other user of the server or try to access their files. We sincerely hope no one interested in this idea would have a bone in their body guilty of even thinking about that. You share this server with others, but you do not look, touch or do anything to their files unless you have permission from them.
• The person who manages the payment each month will also be the only person permitted to change the root password. That person can only change it after contacting all other users of the server.
• That same person is the only person that can send us support requests. If you are not that person, you must tell he/she what question you have about your server- then they relay it to us. Or, post here in the forum first if the question is not a very critical one.
• If anyone abuses the server in any way, we have the right to suspend their account in order to protect the other users. This however, will be the tricky part, as that means a payer of the server will be no more if their suspension reason is one that cannot be mended to allow access to the server again.

Basically, we need to do a test run with this type of system first, a beta if you will... and then after a few months of seeing how the first group of dedicated server sharers goes, then we can officially announce that we offer this method to all of our users.

I am sure many of you know there are systems called Virtual Private Servers. The software to do that costs money to run on these servers, and would basically make us not able to evenly split the price among the users.
Virtual private servers... now that is a completely different arena that we want to get into as well. But we can't talk about that yet! Just talk about my Idea 1, thanks. :1openarms

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itsmethee

It sounds good to me. I would also want to make sure that the people who are in on this have been with surpass for a while and are in good standing with you guys. If they have not caused problems on a shared or resellers server then they should be okay on this server.

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Kayla

Well so far some of the management isn't liking the idea. :no!: I'm probably going to have to close this thread until we can find a way to just offer the VPS solutions at a cheaper rate.

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