Contest for FREE server w/2mbit for 2 months and a chance for 5mbit and a server too!
 

Hi Everyone,

I was trying to think of something fun to do with/for GFY members... something free... and I just figured it out.

Like every other host we're in search of dedicated clients that utilize alot of bandwidth. Wise webmasters always do their research before switching hosts. After all, choosing a host is one of the most important decisions that we all make for our online businesses.

So, in the spirit of competition... fun... trying before you buy... etc... I have a 'free' offer (#1) that is purely discretionary (privately) and a bonafide public contest in #2.

So, here they are:

IDEA #1 - At my discretion I am looking to set aside multiple dedicated servers, each with a 5mbit cap, for qualified "potential" clients to utilize for one month. This would translate to about a theoretical 1500 gigs of bandwidth. The servers will be adequately spec'd out to accomodate this traffic. It would be quite easy, really - if you already control your own DNS you can simply route to our assigned IPs or we can utilize NS1.SINHOST.COM / NS2.SINHOST.COM (our DNS) to create a seamless test if you switched it at the registrar level.

Who qualifies?

If you do 1000 gigs to 30,000 gigs per month then you qualify. How will I select people? Well, my own research and intuition. If I suspect you're looking for a 1 month free ride only then I'll likely tell you to Go Fuck Yourself. The largest potential new customers will receive priority.

What's the point?

There's a shitload of hosts competing vigorously for your business at all different price points. I'd like to pick up some new customers by showing them they can have the highest possible performance at near Cogent pricing. What price exactly? Well, I suspect everyone has different needs but I can assure you it would be worth considering if you're paying over $1.00-$1.50/gig for your Tier 1 bandwidth, hardware and management (all factored in). THIS WILL BE DECIDED PRIVATELY WITH RESULTS POSTED PUBLICLY.

This should be fun! I am anxiously awaiting responses via ICQ and telephone...

OH, but wait, there's more.

I really want to give something away free to a GFY member - no strings. So, just for shits and giggles... here goes:

IDEA #2

Your own free dedicated server, a true "Bitch Box" for two months to play with. I'll cap your bandwidth at 2mbit so you'll have a theoretical 600+- gigs/mo to play with.

Who can have this? I want the poorest bastard on the board that really needs a 'jump start' to his business. Maybe you've fallen on hard times... perhaps you could really use a boost by having the bandwidth for TGPs, etc. If you're competant and make the best case, it's all yours. THIS IS TO BE DECIDED IN THIS THREAD, PUBLICLY. If you're a total moron or complete newbie you won't win - I want to see someone win that is going to make GOOD use of this... and make some money!

So, prepare for a spanking to potentially get some pipe to play with. One person will win this and I suspect we'll have someone in a few days. I'll pick the person after we all have our banter and explain why they were my choice. Maybe if it gets interesting we'll take a vote or pick some judges. lol

Want to 'trace' to my network?
ping... tracert... or use http://visualroute.visualware.com
use this URL: NS1.SINHOST.COM

THE SKINNY?
1) If you'll consider switching hosts and you're a high bandwidth user I'll give you 5mbit and a server to play with for 1 month. (At my discretion, potentially multiple people will qualify)
2) If you make your best case here in the thread as to why you deserve a free server with 600gigs/mo... you can win it for 2 months. (1 Winner)

Sink or swim... let's have some fun.

Cheers,

Brad Mitchell
http://www.SinHost.Com
Toll Free 1-866-SINEMPIRE
ICQ #56950199

Wow. Great deal for a big player and a hobo as well.

Good luck everybody, great offer Brad!

Go buy a banner to get business like everyone else.

i have a mainstream site that pushes over a 2mbit average. although now i'm paying a decent amount (for a free site!) for hosting, so if you want to take my stuff on for good, i will be a nice sinhost mouthpiece for you :) otherwise it's not worth it moving everything over for only a couple months.

Nice contest, i like it. Bring on the poor bastards!

It wont work..everyone likes to brag about how much cash they have here...who is going to admit to being poor!!

... just waiting for the competitors to post ... LOL ... should ge funny ...

Hello everyone,

I have chosen not to post before but instead just watch and learn but i could not let an opportunity like this go to waste so it has brung me out from the shadows.

I first tried my luck in this industry about 6 months ago, at the time i had a stable job and it was just for some 'fun money' that i could spend as i pleases. I did ok for a bit making about a hundred bucks a week from freehosted galleries with sponsor content. But things got tougher at work and i had less and less time in the evenings and weekends so i had to give it up and concentrate on my proper job, somthing which i now later regret. Three weeks ago my company decided to cut a load of jobs and it seems the extra work i had been doing was not enough to keep me there and i was made redundant.

I was given the equivalent of about $2000 redundancy pay as i had not been at my job long but as you well know with rent and food to pay for $2000 doesnt last too long, i have been looking for a job and been taking interviews for nearly three weeks now but with no success so last week i decided to have another shot at this industry.

Last week i purchased Adult Submitter and 7 content sets from zipcontent and have been building galleries and configuring the program to my needs based on my previous results. I was planning on signing up at cologroup on their 50c a gig deal and try my luck with the tgp game again but seing this post tonight i thought id try my luck at some free hosting.

Now im not sure if i could use all the bandwith offered byyou Brad but i will certainly try if you give me the chance, free hosting will also give me the chance to buy more content instead of paying it for bandwith. It would certainly be a great help to get me back on my feet, thanks for the opportunity.


Well, thats my case for you. I have no doubt though that im not the only 'Poor Bastard' on the board so good luck to everyone else in a similar situation or worse.


Signed,

MistaT

Ok, i'll start. My wife left me, my trailer burned down, my dog ran away with the neighboor, I sell food stamp to pay for my booze and i eat out of trash cans. I sneak my computer into circuit city to use their plug outlets and phone lines. I owe thousands of dollars to the mob for gambling debts and my mom is threatening to press charges for this time i got drunk and raped her.

It gets worse, but hopefully that wins it for me, this is very hard to talk about.

I'm poor....

Or I'm about to be...I will be moving in november and thus leaving my job which currently barely supports my wife and child.

(If my boss reads this I'm fucked)

Anyway...I'm a smart fucker as some around this board can attest to. I just bought 3 domains

amateurcamsluts.com
xxxfury.com
petitesnatch.com

and I have 2 others

pornotronic.com
explicit-design.com

I basically have no hosting...and since I will be out of income in 6 months I decided that I should start preparing myself now. I love my job and wish I didn't have to leave, but I do...so this will be my first time out in the real world as an adult webmaster surviving on his own resources and cashflow. So how about it do I qualify?


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Competition eh? Ok, well i also had to have one of my legs amputated, im blind and partially deaf. Women in the trailer park laugh at me and spit on me as i hop by them on my 1 leg. I only own 1 pair of pants and 1 shirt, both smell really bad. All my teeth have fallen out and my penis is turning green.

Looks like my lucks starting already, i just won a gfy sweatshirt! Thanks guys.


Regards

MisterT

Uh oh, Circuit City security has just spotted me, im gonna have to make a run for it. Theres a Computer City down the street, back in a bit

Give it to Gary....he's fucked...

i am traffically challenged, and you are discriminating against me.
my 20 gigs isn't enough for you! you bastard!!

What kind of contest has all these "intuition" and "my discretion"
shit in it

Put your money where your mouth is and hav. a true fucking contest

Ahh, computer City is much nicer, its bigger and i found a chair to sit on. Did i mention I have anal warts from some local bums raping me on a nightly basis. I also have 14 kids i need to feed, 7 of them are still in diapers, but i cant afford diapers so they just shit on me all the time.

Spacedog.

I live on these checks:

http://www.starsuckers.net/check.jpg

And it costs just $12 to cash'em in. :thumbsup

some poor bastard could make a fortune hosting movie clips on his 2 month server & posting at movie posts :thumbsup

I would kill a man for $3.97

i dont like the way this is going already lol

I've got 10:1 odds somebody related to Brad wins...who's up for it?:winkwink:

I bet you my $3.97!

Brad, dont mean to rush you but any ideas when this 'contest' will end, us real poor bastards dont have too much time to wait.

Thanks

MistaT

Did i mention i was too pathetic to be on the Jerry Springer show?

I'm most def not in a position to launch my site to go mainstream on my budget.

My site is webmasters.za.net

It has allot of potential so plzzz help a brother in Africa out.

:helpme

I'll choose on Friday. If this thread dies quickly then I'll choose quicker.

[MistaT] - Cologroup is a good company, Jason is a nice guy. At their 50c per gig you really can't go wrong. So if that's your budget for a permanent home perhaps you should start your account there... But, in the spirit of the contest you might still be able to win here.

:warning Just like pr0 says, "some poor bastard could make a fortune hosting movie clips on his 2 month server & posting at movie posts ".

That's the idea... someone creative should be able to make some bling. On the whole spectrum of hosting providers the value would be somewhere between $600 and $3000. If that were the normal cost... use that to figure out the potential.

Mariuz - Go Fuck Yourself. You bitch and moan probably because you're miserable. The reality is I'm going to pick a winner based on balancing the consensus in here.

Gary - Have you seen two trailer park girls go 'round the outside? :1orglaugh

funkmaster - Let them post if they want. Basically I'm just giving away some free hosting. Everyone knows there really isn't any business to be had in this thread. Perhaps just some good will at the most. This is more a ploy to entertain myself and the regulars around here... with the fringe benefit of perhaps helping somebody that can make good use of asset that is up for grabs.

nocostporn - it wouldn't be a thread if you didn't say something like that.

Perhaps if there are some good runners-up we'll do some virtual hosting for 'em... I think there's more sob stories coming...

Cheers

Brad

trailer park girls wont touch me with a 10 foot pole. :(

Give it to [MistaT] he seems cool, doubt he is a cheater as he has brought content..if everyone lists his galleries his bandwidth should go up to what you are giving away....

...that would be cool... he certainly seems like the ideal candidate with the legitimate intentions.

...next?

Did i mention that as a child i was raped nightly by my father, 3 uncles and grand father.

Maybe I should say what my site is about to get some attention round here :winkwink:

I wrote a script that would let any webmaster on any server online trade traffic.

This is especially very beneficial to freehosts since there's no extra load on their servers. I recently closed a deal with a freehost, but I am not able to take on more with my virtual hosting account.

This is very profitable and does work... only problem is, I have no server :(

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:1orglaugh 'bout time somebody says something

You'll never win. You have exactly what it takes to be a country music star. Just make your story rhyme, learn how to sound twangy, and next thing you know - bling bling...

Thanks for your suport Krome.

OK folks, I'll give this a try... A couple of weeks ago I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis after a $5000 overnight hospital stay. Like many of you would have, I assumed that the numbness in my hands were some sorta Carpel Tunnel Syndrome from all this computer work. It turns out that wasn't the case...

$5000 for an MRI and less than 24 hours in the hospital - Needless to say they'll be paid AFTER my webhost, content providers, internet access, rent, and the grocery bills.

So if you think I'm using this opportunity to get some sympathy :321GFY Go Fuck Yourselves. I don't want your fucking sympathy. I sure could sure use a few hundred gigs of bandwidth though :winkwink:

I would like to say that if any of you have any numbness, dizzyness, or feel off-ballance more than your usual drunken selves GO SEE A FUCKING DOCTOR. Don't fuck around. I waited a few months to get this shit checked out, don't use the same fucking excuses I did.

That's it. Carry on..

Sounds more like a bullshit ploy to get some business than a contest with all those rules and stipulations. I think most hosting companies are too busy signing up new clients and maintaing their servers to have the time to think up crazy contests. But that's just me. :winkwink:

Im being raped RIGHT NOW by Computer City employees. If i cant win the contest, at least send someone to help me.

What am I, chopped liver?

If you think most hosting companies don't do marketing and spend time boosting consumer awareness then you're a huge fucking moron. Your business accumen is lacking. So short-sighted that it never occured to you that I don't do any server installation, maintenance or migration because I have employees doing that.

With regard to "too busy signing up new clients" - that's another stupid fucking comment. Do you know how many clients someone doing sales can sign up in one day? LOL Besides wich, apparently you didn't notice that the hosting market is completely cannibalized and overpopulated.

But back to your original statement... Someone's getting free fucking hosting and quite a bit of it. Terms? Conditions? There are none you idiot, this is as loose as it gets. We're going to watch this thread and pick someone to get some free hosting. And, if we're good, we'll pick someone that'll needs it and is capable of exploiting it for good profit to grow their business.

What public communication by ANY company in ANY medium isn't an effort to get business?! Obviously new business would be a bonus. Otherwise, I also enjoy the benefit of having naive and negative assholes like you crawl out of the ground.

:warning Just fucking admit it - at least this isn't one of those stupid fucking threads where I'm asking... "what do you want in a hosting company"... or "what do you want in a 3rd party processor"... There's some entertainment value here and at a minimum I deserve credit for some creative spam :winkwink:

Brad

Uhhh, did i happen to mention THERES 5 GUYS RAPING ME IN THE BUTT!!!!!

Damn Gary... sounds like you're as screwed up as my inlaws... I used to think they took the cake! :1orglaugh

Brad

hello brad

here's my entry for the POOR category.i want hosting for movie/pic galleries.i have posted on message boards asking hosting companies if they will be intrested in giving me hosting for % of sales

thanks

Right. And I bet they're super busy too. A quote from your website:
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What makes SinHost unique is that we specialize in creating optimal solutions for our clients. Since our plans eliminate high volumes of inexpensive hosting accounts we can spend all of our time on the small number of clients we do accept. This allows for the creation and maintenance of completely unique hosting solutions for our clients.
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Translation: Our prices are so insane that we have a small client base. We've got nothing better to do than try and bait clients with bullshit contests and hope they recur.

I do in fact know how many clients someone doing sales can sign up in one day. The hosting market is saturated. So what? What's wrong with some competition? Thank goodness I read your other marketing scheme, err, your informative article on Cogent bandwidth so I can weed those bad guys out. Obviously if they're charging less than a buck fifty per gig they're some bullshit fly by night operation out to steal my money, sodomize me and punch my grandmother in the face. Right? I need a "Tier 1" provider like say, Verio, or obviously my websites suck as hard as my selection in hosting companies does.

I didn't say anything about the terms and conditions of the hosting, I was speaking in reference to the contest. Certainly someone with such "business acumen" (someone like yourself) didn't misunderstand my clearly written post. I wonder, do you treat your hosting client(s) with such spite and foul language? Certainly you can handle someone questioning you without calling them an "idiot" or a "fucking moron." I hate to think about how you deal with someone who questions say, their bandwidth usage for the month. Do you call them a fucking moron? An idiot perhaps? Do you go on to call their mother the Bukakke Queen of Tokyo? I digress.

I'm not negative, nor naive. The asshole part is a matter of opinion I suppose. I'm simply skeptical. But I suppose I should take your word as the word of God because it would seem you couldn't possibly be doing this for the wrong reasons.

There is definitly entertainment value, I will agree with you there.

My turn ! LOL

I am a bored wife that hates retail management so I turned to porn ! My hubby never puts out so I gotta a boyfriend a few years ago . Boyfriend ran off to live with his "perfect women" the butt ugly step-daughter...


I never took SinHosting101 so I am now not too happy with my current server situation ...

Giggles !!!!!

Man, some funny reading here !


Nighty Night

Sysyphus - Have you looked at my prices? Competition is healthy and that's why I've got complete dedicated hosting solutions as low as $1 per gig. When people choose their host they need to weigh everything in and do their research. That's what the articles were about and that is also in the spirit of this thread.

I don't know how you misunderstood my response to your comment about the contest terms and conditions, of course that's what I was talking about. Re-read my post. "Terms? Conditions? There are none you idiot, this is as loose as it gets."

We're on Go Fuck Yourself so don't take things too personally. However, when you talk out of your butt in a thread you should expect a colorful response. I normally take the high road on language but I found your post extremely offensive, not the least bit 'skeptical' as you seem to phrase it now.

I treat clients like gold - there are very few sponsors and service providers that spend as much time and have as much patience with their clients as I do. Take their words for it: http://sintalk.com/testimonials.html

I can understand that you're skeptical but if that's the case then perhaps asking some questions first before going off the handle with derrogatory statements might be in order.

Besides which, who do you think should get the server so far?

Cheers!

Brad

And which isp do you work for?

Brad don't bite at the few fuckers that are always around to
bash at anything they stumble over. It's their sad way of feeling
better about their own failure.

Perhaps these idiots are the best people to give a break since
these are the real poor bastards.....but then again a man that
admits he's on the downside for a bit deserves a hell of a lot
more respect than the sad bashing individuals.

No I don't apply...I have hosting and if I want to try out I can
afford to pay. I do like this initiative and I hope it does well
to both the "hard working poor bastard" as to your business.

DynaMite :thumbsup

Thanks for the kind words guys :winkwink:

I need to start ignoring naysayers instead of giving them the attention they want for their sometimes rediculous but always nasty posts.

In retrospect I would cut the first part of my post and make it all about giving away the free hosting to someone that will make good use of it. It just amazes me that even in an attempt to give away what is on average at least a grand worth of hosting attracts the responses of people that can't think to do anything but be nasty... instead of have some fun with the thread and put in their :2 cents: about who should get it.

Brad