'Aquarius Storage - Stop Searching, Start Hosting Interview'

Aquarius Storage - Stop Searching, Start Hosting Interview

By Interviewer at 12/30/08 13:57

Name of your website?

Aquarius Storage - Stop Searching, Start Hosting

Your name?

Ryan Chaffin

Your Location (city, etc)

Columbus

Please give us a short summary of your website?

A Company providing shared and reseller web hosting

What inspired you to launch your own website?

We wanted to providing enterprise class web hosting at a affordable price.

When did you launch your first website, and what was it?

1998 and it was a online gaming web site

How did you decide on a name for your website?

Aquarius is very calm and smooth and Storage, obviously because we store web sites

What makes your website different from other, similar offerings?

We offer R1Soft Continuos backup solutions of all users data, as well as LiteSpeed Web Servers.

What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)

To grow, and to profit. Also to learn a lot about the web hosting market.

How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?

It's balanced well thus far. We're profiting.

If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?

We haven't already spent a lot of money on our web site, so not sure :-P

If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?

Hire more employees

What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?

Hard Drives Dieing, network outages.

What has been your biggest challenge?

Demanding Customers.

What method has been most successful for promoting your website?

Webhostingtalk, Google AdSense

How has running your website differed from your expectations?

It's made me realize it takes a lot to promote a web site.

How long have you run the site already, and how long will you continue to keep it up if you don't enjoy big gains in traffic, income or popularity?

I do enjoy it and will continue to run it. Web site has been up since December 1st, 2008

Web webhosting?

Because we're compassionate individuals who know the hosting market is very saturated at the moment, but realize if we provide a world class service, that we will grow.

What is your website address?

Aquarius Storage - Stop Searching, Start Hosting

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