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Given the fact that Phoenix runs as a free service in terms of shells, it is extremely difficult to make ends meet, with many users resorting to paying from their own pockets to ensure this project continues (Yes, Tim won't be eating more than bread this month)

As such, the following things are more than welcome by way of feedback:

A) Do you have any influence in any online communities that may desire hosting or services of any kind?
B) What services would you like to see provided, both free and paid.
C) Can you think of any ways of publicising Phoenix to the wider online community?

Even if you can't directly answer any/all of these questions, ANY feedback here is more than welcome. Phoenix will need support if it is to stay operational, and we'd certainly hate to see the project halt.

Kind regards,

~Awong

how about, (mandatory)placing PN's google adsense link to those who have sites hosted on our community? more exposure, more page impressions, more clicks.. (but yeah..sometimes adsense is a pain in the ass, they suspend accounts base on plain suspicion.)

how many hosting package do we have? like others have: home, business, developer? etc...

if im not mistaken, we are on a single server on a data center, right? unlike before we had different servers to distribute users..

btw, how does the payment billing work on our servers? extra pay on extra bandwidth consumption? $200/mo is way to much for Tim alone offering our community with shell,we need to help out.

we need heavy advertising to have paid customers.

We have unmetered data usage.

Most of the money we pay goes into our IP range, our HDDs and I imagine a bit goes towards the backup accounts we have been given access to.

Theoretically we could live off ad revenue (we certainly used to) however we'd need to have a huge influx of traffic through phoenix-network.org. So getting our name out to the right places is the best way to start really.

I've recommended your services to a few people who have asked and have also posted it on some message boards where the topic was shells/hosting. I'd be more than glad to keep spreading the word to keep this project afloat!

I strongly think phoenix is worth keeping around because it is the only free shell provider that offers 500mb of storage at now cost.

Its the best I've found that doesn't require serious hoops to jump through, and certainly the friendliest. An AD banner at the top of the forums / main site should help a lot, along with a few different levels of hosting above what's currently offered for those willing to pay for it.