Hosting Company Verification

[Jimmy]

You may think before reading this "oh no another crap suggestion".

I think that the staff should manually approve new hosting company threads. On a competitor site (that is quite small), they moderate and approve hosts, and it's overall a much cleaner section.

So, here's my proposal:
Any requests can be moved to it's own subforum, that requires a "Requesting" prefix.

Then any threads to be marked as "Offering" would go through these steps of verification

• The business must be a legally registered business and that business registration information must be displayed on the business website.

• The business website must have a Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

• The business website and control panels must follow security best practices, connections must be secured.

• All software used by the business must be registered to the business where applicable.

• Representatives of the business must not have a history of rule violations.

I think this would stop the "half developed" companies from clogging up the Hosting Section.

Post your thoughts!

 

[Jimmy]

Too true, too true.

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You're almost worse than a college liberal

 

[Jimmy]

I can do more than that.. just not trying.

You're now as bad as a college liberal

 

[Jimmy]

I told you I could do better :

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WOW U R SO COOL
seriously doe you don't get any pussy

 

[Techknowsitall]

*Just so everyone knows, everything I say is my personal opinion. It doesn't reflect to what the OP says, nor does it reflect to what other people say. Everything below is what I believe should be enforced and what shouldn't. You may choose to agree with me, or you can choose to not. I'm not here to start an argument, so if you disagree with me, then piss off.

So, here's my proposal:
Any requests can be moved to it's own subforum, that requires a "Requesting" prefix.

Completely agree with you on this. This'll help hosts be able to easily see who's requesting a host, without having the hassle of going through and finding through a mix of hosts and people searching for a host.

• The business must be a legally registered business and that business registration information must be displayed on the business website.

I don't however agree with this. There are SOME* hosts that are quite decent, yet they're not registered. Yes, having a registered company is of course more "trustable", however throwing out this rule is essentially telling the actual decent hosts who've worked extremely hard that aren't registered, to go piss off. (I don't want to start an argument, I just simply want to state my opinion and leave, so please don't argue back to me. Once again, stating my opinions.)

• The business website must have a Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

I agree. A website should ALWAYS have a PP and a ToS, it should be enforced yet it's not. Without a ToS and a PP, the host is pretty much saying, oh yeah, since we don't have a ToS and PP, you can fuck with our servers and we can fuck with your data.

• The business website and control panels must follow security best practices, connections must be secured.

Agreed. Really don't want client's data to go get deleted because of some idiotic mistake of "not changing permissions of a very important directory, which is accessible to the public".

• All software used by the business must be registered to the business where applicable.

Definitely, licenses/software should NOT be pirated. MANY MANY hosts pirate WHMCS, and who knows, they could've downloaded it from some weird ass website who put some bullshit onto there and is able to hack into those files and steal client data. Definitely agree with you on this one.

• Representatives of the business must not have a history of rule violations.

Yes of course, you wouldn't want a staff member of a business working with you if they've previously violated a rule. Once again, definitely agree with you on this one.

I'm just stating my opinions, and if you don't like what I have to say, then so be it. Words come out of your mouth, and words come out of my mouth. It's our own decisions to make sure what comes out of them. *In this case they're my fingers, and it's my decision with what I type using them.

 

[Jimmy]

Completely agree with you on this. This'll help hosts be able to easily see who's requesting a host, without having the hassle of going through and finding through a mix of hosts and people searching for a host.


I don't however agree with this. There are SOME* hosts that are quite decent, yet they're not registered. Yes, having a registered company is of course more "trustable", however throwing out this rule is essentially telling the actual decent hosts who've worked extremely hard that aren't registered, to go piss off. (I don't want to start an argument, I just simply want to state my opinion and leave, so please don't argue back to me. Once again, stating my opinions.)


I agree. A website should ALWAYS have a PP and a ToS, it should be enforced yet it's not. Without a ToS and a PP, the host is pretty much saying, oh yeah, since we don't have a ToS and PP, you can fuck with our servers and we can fuck with your data.


Agreed. Really don't want client's data to go get deleted because of some idiotic mistake of "not changing permissions of a very important directory, which is accessible to the public".


Definitely, licenses/software should NOT be pirated. MANY MANY hosts pirate WHMCS, and who knows, they could've downloaded it from some weird ass website who put some bullshit onto their and is able to hack into those files and steal client data. Definitely agree with you on this one.


Yes of course, you wouldn't want a staff member of a business working with you if they've previously violated a rule. Once again, definitely agree with you on this one.

I'm just stating my opinions, and if you don't like what I have to say, then so be it. Words come out of your mouth, and words come out of my mouth. It's our own decisions to make sure what comes out of them. *In this case they're my fingers, and it's my decision with what I type using them.

I like it! Although, regarding registered companies, it isn't hard to register one, especially considering most are just fine with an LLC

 

[Techknowsitall]

I like it! Although, regarding registered companies, it isn't hard to register one, especially considering most are just fine with an LLC

Definitely, filing for a LLC or LTD registration is absolutely easy. However people don't like going through the hassle of doing so.

*All words that I type simply are my own opinions. If you don't like it, then piss off.

 

[Charlie]

Too true, too true.

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You're a really funny guy.

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I like it! Although, regarding registered companies, it isn't hard to register one, especially considering most are just fine with an LLC

Yeah its only like £15 to register in the UK, lol

 

[Chearful]

I agree with all of the points listed apart from being a registered company. Is there not a minimum age on setting them up?

 

[Errota]

I don't support this suggestion because quite frankly it's up to the customer where they buy from. If they choose to go with a new host then expect there to be a bigger risk.

 

[Lyphiard]

No. You have to be 18 to do this as far as I know.

I've registered an LLC when I was 13 before

 

[Kiwi]

This isn't that important. The softwares are developed and not meant to have security vulnerabilites. WHMCS and Multicraft won't be easy to steal data from.

This is entirely false. While they were designed not be vulnerable, they have so, SO, many flaws. You can easily get the data from Multicraft with a few nifty tricks. Same with WHMCS.