Working Away

Jun 13, 2012 by raindog308

My hosting company startup is coming together nicely.  I haven’t had any big decisions to discuss here in the last couple weeks, mainly because I’ve been head’s-down at work on the web site.

I’m not using a hosting company template (because in my opinion they all look alike), which has actually been a great experience as my HTML/CSS/JS skills have improved immensely.  This is my setup:

• Invision Power Services‘ suite, using IP.Content for pages, IP.Nexus for billing, and IP.Board for the accompanying forum.
• CodeCanyon for sliders, lightboxes, jQuery, etc.
• Various stock photo sources I mentioned earlier.
• Cufon for fonts, as well as a couple free fonts.  I didn’t use Google Fonts because they don’t seem 100% functional in all browers, ironically Chrome itself.  Chrome in Windows x64 has a font issue and it seems very pronounced with web-delivered fonts, though I’ve had zero problems with Cufon.

I’ve got a lot done, and the remaining work looks like this:

• Web site – about 90% done.  A couple odds and ends left.
• Nexus – next task.  I’m waiting for 1.5 to go gold, as that includes domain reselling and a couple other things I want.
• cPanel/WHM – I finished my custom skin and now need to make some plugins for special things I want.
• Behind-the-scenes – a lot of this is done.  Backups are done (in spades).  Need to setup off-host monitoring, but a lot of the basic maintenance is done.
• Beta test – in the works.  A few people are suffering with my startup pains.
• There are a couple common tasks that I need to get familiar with – e.g., some of the cPanel options I’d like to play with before someone opens a ticket.
• Business setup – this is done.  Company registered, bank account open, etc.

My project plan calls for getting to “can accept orders”.  I’m nearly there (Nexus is the main thing I need to do).  Once I’m at a point where I can open the doors, I can get into the next big project section – marketing.

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