6 Month Recap

It’s been around 6 months since our public launch, and we’re extremely happy with how things have progressed up until this point. We’ve made a few positive changes (such as increasing our packages) and all in all believe that so far we have established a service that our clients can be extremely happy with, not only from a hosting performance and reliability perspective, but also from a customer service and support perspective. But… there’s always room for improvement. We absolutely welcome any and all feedback from our existing clients, and we invite you to tell us how we can provide you with the best hosting service around. Even if your suggestion involves an extremely complex new system that could take us 6 months to develop and put into production; we’d like to hear it.

A Little Extra

When looking at our packages page, I noticed that compared to the amount of diskspace and bandwidth that we were offering, the number of subdomain and addon domains we provided wasn’t really balanced. I’ve now increased these to try and obtain a better ratio of space and bandwidth, and believe these to be much more in line. As always, existing customers will receive these changes immediately.

Faster than MediaTemple VPS’s?

It’s not often that our clients actually test the performance of our servers and compare them against their existing hosting, so it was nice to see this post on our forums, informing us that our shared hosting server “Elisha” outperforms their existing $150/month VPS from MediaTemple. MediaTemple are an extremely large and well known hosting company, so this was a hugely positive comment.

As our Why Us? states, we use powerful hardware to ensure that performance is top notch. Additionally, we also continually monitor and adjust our servers for optimum performance – something very few hosts do. Why should shared hosting have to be slower than dedicated? We don’t believe it has to be at all.

Thanks for the report, daniel!

Help Spread the World

Many of you will have been customers of ours now for several months, and we’d like to ask you to help get the word out about ThisWebHost. It’s certainly no mystery that the best form of advertising is direct or word of mouth advertising. With your help, we can grow this* substantially and improve upon every aspect of our hosting further.

Please consider taking a few minutes of your time to write a review of our hosting. Places like WebHostingTalk are fantastic communities that have “real” feedback from real clients, and are completely invaluable from a marketing perspective.

If you have a blog, please blog about us or mention us in one of your posts. If you use Twitter, feel free to twit about us. If you frequent a forum and somebody asks which host you recommend, please spare a thought for us.

Anything you can do to help spread the word about us is heavily appreciated. So much so that… who knows? Maybe we’ll reward you for it (yes, seriously). Let us know where you’ve helped tell the world about ThisWebHost!

All new clients will automatically obtain the new doubled packages, as per our order page.

Firstly, you must have a hosting account with us already. This is essential because the affiliates system ties into your already existing account details, giving you your own unique link. Once you have a hosting account you then have to enable the affiliates system if interested. You can do this by logging into your client area and hitting the affiliates link at the bottom right and following the instructions.

We pay 25% commission on every referral after their account has been active for 30 days. This is just to safeguard ourselves against people signing up with their own fake referrals to earn immediate credits, and then cancelling their account a few days later. Commission is paid monthly, and you will receive affiliate report earnings via e-mail to let you know how you’re doing.

Affiliate reports can be tracked in real-time via your client area, so you’ll always know if that person you’ve been bugging on IRC/MSN etc has actually signed up yet or not! So what are you waiting for? Get earning with this* today!

To celebrate our launch, we’re offering a one time discount of 25% across all hosting packages. To clarify, if you pay monthly then you will receive 25% off your first months bill. If you pay annually, you will receive 25% off the annual cost (which can be quite substantial *hint hint*). To utilise this discount, all you have to do is enter the coupon code LAUNCH (original, we know) during purchase, and you should see it applied instantly. But hurry, this coupon can only be used a limited number of times! We’d tell you just how many, but that would spoil the fun, wouldn’t it?

Anyway, thanks for looking into hosting with this*. We look forward to working with you.

We’re probably very much like you, in that we absolutely hate spam and receiving e-mails to our personal accounts that we haven’t explicitly requested. Because of that, this blog will hopefully act as our primary method of communication towards existing and potentially new clients, as well as act as our public “think tank” where we can bounce ideas off you. We’ll rarely e-mail you (unless it’s highly important), so if you want to keep up to date with the goings on and the goings off for this* – then please add our RSS feed accordingly.

We’re currently working on getting the website completed, and up and running, so please bear with us.