Sorry if you took offense, X-Factor I was not really trying to ding you. My comment about your system being under utilized was more about the fact that you may only at most use it 12 hours a day (assuming one has a life
). Where as a web server/database etc. can be utilized 100% of the time.
I do want to say that I looked at your site, and think you do a very good job with your templates.
I wanted to give you KUDOs for the documentation that you have done. It was very well thought out and very impressive.
One other thing to note about APPWS is that we actually strive to be more of a value added hosting provider mainly for the Carolinas but we are expanding as developers from all over the US have signed with us. The key for our success is to let developers do what they do best, and we will do what we do best. We are collecting as much of the components, modeles, templates, documents as possible and give our resellers a login and place to download what they need. This way they always come to us and they dont have to google to find things. When needed we will contract modules and components to be written for them. We have pricing on our site, in case someone wants us to do website, but our focus has become more on training web developers how to use Mambo and increase their profits. Show them examples of how to make Mambo not look like Mambo, but yet still get the benefits of a great CMS.
The other major reason for supplying pricing on our site, is so our resllers have an idea what to charge in our area. Again as a value added hosting provider we research pricing and post it to our site so our resellers have one place to go. We have several resellers right now and most of the web designs that we now get we outsource to our resellers, even though the client interfaces with us. We have also had requests from several resellers to let us manage the client in terms of discussions, money, etc. So again we are trying to let the developers and designers do what they do best, and let us manage the business and hosting side of things. I am sure this will become a feature very soon because we are getting a lot of request for this. I guess developers are tired of dealing with things other than what they enjoy.
X-Factor also if you could go to our site and send a contact us email, one of the owners would like to disucss with you partnerning with you for design work when we have clients in the New York area.
Thanks,
-nkr1ptd