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Steel Supplies

Steel becomes super strong only when it is hardened properly. If it was not hardened properly, or if any process ofmaking the steel was not done properly, a steel rod would be no harder than a twig and would break into half when twisted or bent.

And that makes it important for steel to be purchased from good vendors. Mateirals like steel wire cloth, perforated steel, expanded metal,  bar grating and fiberglass grating, should only be taken from reputed vendors like Petro Wire & Steel who have experience in specialty steel products for the petrochemical, architectural, construction, agriculture, mining and marine industries.

Collecting Payments

This is the tough part. Particularly when you would be dealing with several new clients every day, and it is not going to be just 1 payment every month. Several small payments come every month, and with that money you should be keeping your company running.

If you are running an India based Hosting company, several of them being there already serving the whole wide world, paypal should be your first choice. You can register for a business account, get it verified with your credit card, and integrate it with your site. If your site is a basic html site, you could paste payapl buttons on the page with which your clients could get into subscriptions, and terminate it when they want to discontinue. Paypal is a service that is used world wide, and you can withdraw money to your indian bank accounts, and you dont really need an offshore bank account in the US or UK to receive payments which you can wire to India.

Otherwise, you could opt for a USD payment processor which can process credit cards for you. But this will need an offshore bank account into which you could collect the payments. You could always bring any amount of money into India, without any taxes.

De La Hoya/Mayweather rematch

Looks like Oscar De La Hoya may back off on plans for a May fight. The Golden Boy is now looking at a big money rematch with Floyd Mayweather in September. Their first bout that broke all PPV records last May in Las Vegas. Golden Boy Promotions’ CEO Richard Schaefer told ESPN that the bout is “almost finalized” for September 13 or September 20.

Floyd Joy Mayweather,, is a professional American boxer who has a record of 39-0 (25 KOs or TKOs). He is the son of Floyd Mayweather Sr., a former welterweight boxing contender. Outside the ring Mayweather flaunts his wealth and lavish lifestyle, often referring to his $1.2 million collection of jewelery. He is known in and around boxing as the greatest boxer of his generation and one of all the best of all time.

Since July 18, 2005, he has been rated by The Ring magazine as the number-one pound for pound boxer in the world. Mayweather has won six world boxing championships in five different weight classes; he is the current WBC welterweight champion. He was named Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year in 1998 and 2007. In his last bout, he defeated Ricky Hatton at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas in a highly anticipated match on December 8, 2007, by way of a 10th round TKO. Mayweather is currently working on a rematch with Oscar De La Hoya to take place September 20, 2008.

Mayweather was also well known for competing on the fifth season of Dancing with the Stars where he was the fourth celebrity eliminated from the competition.[2] He recently performed for World Wrestling Entertainment, competing in a match against Big Show at WrestleMania XXIV.

Oscar De La Hoya is a Mexican American boxer who won a gold medal for the United States Boxing Team at the Barcelona Olympic Games. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather, father,nephews Raul Salinas brother were all boxers, but it was Oscar who took his boxing talent to superstar status. De La Hoya became Ring Magazine’s “Fighter of the Year” in 1995 and Ring Magazine’s top-rated Pound for Pound fighter in the world in 1997. De La Hoya has defeated over a dozen world champions and has won 6 world titles. De La Hoya’s amateur career included 223 wins, 163 by way of knockout, with only 5 losses. He won the United States’ only boxing gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics, by knocking down his opponent; a win which he dedicated to his deceased mother. After the superfight with Floyd Mayweather in 2007, Oscar de la Hoya became the richest fighter ever in the history of boxing.

Quote from http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=3200384

The richest fight in boxing history is on the verge of getting a sequel.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya, who shattered box office records when they met last spring, are close to finishing a deal for a rematch, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer told ESPN.com Wednesday.

“We are still discussing things but we have almost finalized it,” said Schaefer, who heads De La Hoya’s promotional company. “I think an announcement will be forthcoming.”

Schaefer said the fight would be Sept. 13 or Sept. 20 on HBO pay-per-view. He said the site for Mayweather-De La Hoya II has not been settled but he is holding the September dates at the 27,000-seat Home Depot Center, the outdoor home to the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer. He said other venues are also interested, including the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

A source also told ESPN.com Wednesday night that Dodger Stadium was interested in hosting the fight after L.A. native De La Hoya suggested he’d like to fight there before retiring.

Mayweather won a split decision to take De La Hoya’s junior middleweight belt when they met May 5 at the MGM Grand.

The match between boxing’s No. 1 fighter, Mayweather, and its greatest attraction, De La Hoya, was a success and, ultimately, a rematch was hard to pass up.

“Floyd is agreeable to do the fight and so is Oscar,” Schaefer said. “Now it’s just me working through everything.”

Although De La Hoya has said he planned to return to the welterweight division and Mayweather is the welterweight world champion, Schaefer said the weight for a rematch hadn’t been determined. He said it could be at a catch weight somewhere between the 147-pound welterweight division and 154-pound junior middleweight class.

“It’s something we are discussing,” he said.

Backed by five-months of promotion, which included an 11-city cross-country tour and HBO’s reality series “De La Hoya/Mayweather 24/7,” the first fight broke boxing box office records including total gross ($165 million); pay-per-view subscriptions (2.4 million); pay-per-view gross ($134.4 million) and live gate ($18,419,200).

Although the fight was panned by many for a lack of action and the rematch probably won’t approach the numbers of the original, it still figures to do well.

De La Hoya had planned to return to the ring May 3, but didn’t have an opponent. The prospect of facing British star Ricky Hatton, his first choice, evaporated when Mayweather returned to welterweight and knocked Hatton out in the 10th round on Dec. 8.

Welterweight titleholder Miguel Cotto was a darkhorse candidate to fight De La Hoya. Cotto promoter Bob Arum acknowledged it was unlikely. He spent Wednesday in New York meeting with HBO executives about an alternative plan for Cotto, who probably will fight in April, possibly against first-season “Contender” star Alfonso Gomez.

Hatton’s lopsided defeat left Mayweather as De La Hoya’s most lucrative opponent. But instead of facing him on Cinco De Mayo weekend, the rematch will move to the fall because Mayweather is taking a break after a grueling 2007 inside and out of the ring.

Mayweather’s fights with De La Hoya and Hatton were the biggest of the year and the promotions were exhausting. He also found mainstream recognition during his fall run on the popular reality series “Dancing with the Stars.”

A rematch with De La Hoya (38-5, 30 KOs) would delay Mayweather (39-0, 25 KOs) jumping to mixed martial arts, which he has discussed with “Dancing with the Stars” pal and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who also owns his own MMA promotional company.

Leonard Ellerbe, Mayweather’s adviser and close friend, was unavailable for comment.

With De La Hoya moving off May 3, it is possible that his friend and Golden Boy Promotions partner Shane Mosley could fight on the date instead.

Dan Rafael is the boxing writer for ESPN.com.

So go ahead and get your Mayweather/De La Hoya tickets at teamonetickets.com

Infrastructure for a Hosting Company

You would do well keeping your support system in a completely isolated place. But if you are starting off small, and are keeping everything under one roof, including sales, and support, isolate sales from support. Give support most priority. Keep them on an isolated intercom circuit. Give them the best power backup. Have more than one internet connection for them, even if you have a best internet service provider’s connection in your region.

Install seperate local servers for the sales, billing and the support teams. Always keep them on seperate LAN connections on seperate internet connections. You wouldnt want your sales people to know which client is having problems, and your support to know how much sales is being done. Though support people may guess that from the number of new accounts that are bing created, it is best to keep them all isolated.

Provide seperate PCs for each of your staff. If you have 3 support guys, one working on each shift, give them an induvidual PC, 1 for each, and dont let them share a common PC. They should be able to access the details and everything that they need from a common server to which all support PCs are connected. There is no point in having more than 2 shifts for sales, so they might as well share PCs.

Though you are confident about your network installation, wires can get disconnected at any time. So it is always best to connect your PCs thru wifi. Atleast you will be able to switch to another ISP line immediately if you have problems in one.

Make sure that you get only a Split AC, that comes with a seperate outdoor unit, so that people can save themselves from the noise that the AC produces.

Seat your staff very close to a loo, so that they dont spend too much time wandering to the loo once in a while. Also, have an office attendent or two, who would bring refreshments directly to them, so that they dont have to take the excuse of walking to the coffee machine ever half hour.

If you have got loadshedding in your area, or if your area is a victim of a very frequent power blackout, it is best to go for a sinewave UPS, as running computers on Generators is not advisable. You could however install generators for the ACs and lights.

This should do, to start up a small scale office for providing web hosting services

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