Web Hosting Profits - January 2006

Welcome to Web Hosting Profits.  In this edition:
 
 Article: How to launch a big business without the big bucks
 
Microsoft money helps small hosts start up big
 
Talk to any entrepreneur today, and chances are they’ll tell you that the greatest mistake you can make when starting a business is to start out too small. Investing in only the bare necessities in the hope of growing later. Sure, the mom and pop model was once acknowledged as a safe way to build a good business, but today - and this is as true in the webhosting game as anywhere else – there is getting to be less and less room for the small-timer.  read more.
 
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 Article: Helm developers pack – a new era in functionality
Add you own functionality – develop your own Helm products
 
In the webhosting business, in order to remain competitive you have to be able to offer the latest hot products and services quickly and efficiently. Yet, in the past, webhosting control panels have simply been management tools, and were inflexible when it came to adding new products.
 
Realising how the old model control panels limited their webhosting businesses, we recognised our new version of Helm had to be almost open source.  read more.

 

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As many of you will be aware, Helm 4 Control Panel had its launch with the help of Microsoft in November 2006. What you may not know is that Helm 4 employs a completely different architecture than any other control panel. While the core is still maintained by us, the ability to create new functionality for Helm is going completely open source. And right now we want to get your thoughts on that. Click here for more information.