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.

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.

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.

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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

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

I have a feeling that this site will redefine the concept of search engines. This even acts like a miniature wikipedia as it gives a small synopsys of what you are searching for. there has already been a debate that wikipedia might in the near future overtake google in the search for information as wikipedia has got almost everything now, and it comes without ads and it doesnt use any stupid algorithms. Lets say you are searching fro a good hosting company. When you search google it will just give you a list of sites in the order in which the sites are optimized. But if the company is good at optimization of websites for the search engines and are not really keen on hosting, then the site might be on the top but the service might be poor, while the people who provide good services might be bottom just because they have not optimized their websites or they have not put up any sponsored advertisments on google’s search page.

A search with an article is at its starting stage, and once developed, people will only go for that. When you search for hosting companies on a search engine like ranknoodle.com, you will possibly get a user edited or a user reviewed list of sites rather than a list that is ordered bust by a company’s stupid algorithm. This technology is going to rule the internet in the very near future.

If you start a forum for your hosting company in the initial stages and leave it unmoderated, naturally you will get links of sites of people posted in their footers, you will get intentional bad reviews from competition or people who dont wish to see you grow, and when a group forms, they might just go ahead and start their own business, every one serving one another.

Dont do that.

Maintain a mailing list, and send out newsletters to everyone once in a while, give them offers, create polls, create offers and stuff.

Or, add them all to various instant messengers that are available online such as Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, AOL, Gtalk and Skype. This way, all clients would need to add you first to chat with you, and it is easy for them to follow you up, and for you to follow them up. And if any one finds the other annoying, the “block” option is always there. Never send bulk messages to entire groups in chat messengers. Use a software such as pidgin that can work with multiple messenger ids at the same time, and this would improve the effeciency of your work.

Always use a helpdesk system to provide support, and never let the support techs to be on chat with the clients. Employ seperate staff for support chats, who can communicate with the techs without annoying them and get the result.

Clinets will not be kind when they have got issues on the server. They will always think that they are on the centre of the world and that nothing else matters to them. So, if they speak with that attitude to the support techs, they might get annoyed and their effeciency might reduce. Also, to handle helpdesk mails, it is advisable to have staff who could do that.

Never let your support techs come into direct communication with your clients, since it could mean disaster. Clients are important for you, and so are the support staff. So give importance to both, and have medeiating staff.

Personally I have shifted homes, I have shifted offices, shifted my own websites between servers before I started a hosting company, and now I find that all very easy. No matter how many men you have to do the work, you cant work any faster than the server would. Plesk is dead slow, and with all those sites working on the server, and with clients from all over the world, there is no off peek time for your server, you will never make it.

Plesk has a backup restore function, which you need to use from the remote desktop. Create the backup selecting resellers or domains in each task, and once its complete, move the backup file to the new server, and restore it there thru the plesk bakcup resotre function.

Sounds easy? It will, till you see it. I had 12 people working on it for 24 hours a day for nearly 20 days last year to get 1 server migrated. And in the last leg of the migration, the hard disk failed on the old server, and unfortunately, the backup files that we had created were yet to be moved to the new server, and all data was lost.

Just google with indyahozting and you will find out the bad reviews that we had got because of that. But still, we were quick enough to get the new server ready and ask people to upload the backups that they have had. Luckily most of the clients had their backups handy, and they restored all files, except for the few ones, who just decided to write about us on the forums.

Therefore, even though I know quite well about internet marketing myself, having run a not so bad web hosting company for the past few years, I still wondered if there could be anyone out there in the blogsphere, who could give a better opinion on a better marketing strategy, or a site promotion strategy, and thats when I found Lim’s blog.

Amazon and Ebay are the best ways to make money thru affiliate marketing. But there are tonnes of others who provide affiliateship, and do pay. It is not advisable to go to websites like affiliatejunktion who just eat up a majority of the affilliate commission that the company pays and pay you a very small part, and its always best to approach the companies that provide afiliateships directly.

Having a look at Lim’s blog would give you a better idea.

When you run a hosting company that is fully automated, where visitors come by themselves, purchase hosting on your site, make the payment and the account gets activated, and they start using it, you dont have any work to do there. And you have plenty of time. You could do well to utilize this time to review the various sites that are hosted on your servers. What they have in the front end and what they have behind the scenes.

Most of the times, the datacentre, or the ISP will send you alerts if there are any malicious activities going on on any of the sites on your server, and all you need to do would be to suspend the hosting and the domain. But at times, somethings might go terribly wrong that the ISPs take your server offline by detatching the IP before they approach you. So it is always better to monitor the server yourself, or employ someone who would be good at it.

List of contents that shouldn’t be on your servers.

1. Porn.

2. Unrecognized software sales

3. Un Conformed or unregistered Shopping Sites.

4. Pages that look like any bank, payment gateway, or pages that collect personal information of any sort.

5. Sites that send out a lot of email.

Why?

Contd…….

Fortunately, unlike the PC market, Linux domainates the server industry completely. Nearly 85% of all web servers run on linux. Server Admins like linux since it is trouble free, is a lot stable, wont crash like windows does, is a lot secure, and is a lot efficient. But still, Microsoft Enthusiasts who wish to make their websites only with ASP and MSSQL server, should opt only for windows, since Linux doesnt really support it.

Linux is the best server operating system. There is Solaris ofcourse, and there are mainframes, but when it comes to shared web hosting on 32 or 64 bit servers, it is linux that rocks, and not really windows.

But still, a restaurant that serves Chicken should serve toothpicks as well. So, if you run a hosting company, give priority to linux, and keep the number of windows server on your portfolio minimal. The best way to reduce demand for windows hosting is to keep the price of windows packages extremely high. If the price is something like double that of the price you offer linux hosting for, no one would go for windows naturally unless they really need it.

Likewise, the costs for Windows servers are certainly higher than that of linux servers with all those license fees and stuff. You are literally paying Microsoft for the bugs that they have put in their operating systems, and not for any quality that they have put in their work on the Operating System that they have put up for sale.

1. Linux servers dont need defragmentation. Windows needs that every week, and when your server runs 24×7, you cant really find time or the resources to do the defrag, and when you are doing that, you will find that the sites that you have hosted on the server are really really slow.

2. Linux doesnt need a virus scanner. Windows needs a minimum of 2 virus scanners running on them to monitor the sites and the files that are being uploaded and downloaded from the sites. This consumes considerable processor and memory resources.

3. Linux servers dont need a restart at all. They can run without restarts for months together without any problems. I havent restarted my server for atleast 4 months If im right. I ofcourse restart the services from the server such as SMTP server POP3, Apache etc from the services management, but have never rebooted the server once in the past 4 months or even more. And I restart my Windows server every day. You will see a downtime of 7 Mins every day if you are following the uptime rating of the sites on the server. There is no other way. The server has to be restarted. The Ram completely craps up the server speed, and restarting the services or any operation doesnt help. Only a full server reboot, that results in a complete shutdown of all sites for 7 minutes would help.

4. The best security feature of Linux is that it comes with all its ports closed by default while being installed. You will have to open a port if you need to use it, and if it remains unused for quite some time, it will automatically get closed. That is the best security feature that Linux has. You cannot hack into a Linux server easily. Windows installs with all ports wide open and inviting, and to close them and monitor them, you need to install port monitoring software, which costs money, and resources.

5. The Linux file system never fails or crashes. Windows File System can fail at any time. Linux file systems are very easy on the hard drives, and work hard to keep the drives cool and give longer life to them and keep your data safe. Windows tortures the hard drives just as Hitler tortured the Jews. You can test this yourself on your local PC, install LInux and listen to the sounds that the hard disk produces during normal operation, and chekc the same after installing Windows. You can literally hear it screaming.

6. Linux is a trillion times better when it comes to parallel processing than Windows. So on a server that is shared between clients, everyone would be using a part of the resources, and the resource allocation is a lot simpler in Linux than in Windows, and therefore, the load on the processor is lesser, and you get better results on the performance.

7. There is nothing much that you cannot do on a Linux server thru SSH, and on Windows, you cant do a thing with the Console that they provide, and most of the time you will need to get on to the remote desktop to run command Line instructions.

8. Linux is best for mails. Everything is free and open source. Just install linux on your server and install Exim, and your mail server is ready. In windows, you can go for the free Mail Enable, which sucks completely, or you can pay that huge license fee and get a Microsoft Exchange Server License, which is, by default, filled with bugs as always.

9. Linux is perfect for file server and ftp server requirements. It can manage any number of hard drives connected to the server with ease, and with absolutely no struggle. Windows suffers a lot in managing 2 hard drives parallely. Though they say Windows 2008 does support large number of Hard Drives, I still think it cannot match Linux. Then again, distribution of multiple files on the ftp server to multiple clients can be handled well only by Linux, and Windows wont do that at all. It will struggle and it will make the server struggle.

10. Linux supports PHP, CGI, Perl etc, while windows supports all these ad ASP and MSSQL. People done really realize that these software released by Microsoft are full of bugs, and most of them are intentionally placed. SQL is the same everywhere. MySql is free, and it doesnt mean that it is insecure, and just because MSSQL comes with an expensive license means that it is secure. Banks and other people who are serious about their data never go for MSSQL. They go straight to Oracle. So who does need MSSQL? No one really. Microsoft is just a company that produces software that really should be banned. There are better software in Open Source. And people who really dont understand this go for ASP and MSSQL, while they dont realize that PHP can do better than these.