MMG Universal launched its world class web hosting and E mail services on January 15, 2007

First planned and announced on December 16, 2006 Revised and Updated on July 04, 2008 Web hosting from mmguniversal.com 'Aw God No. One more web hosting provider amongst the millions of providers who already exist'. This will be the normal reaction of most people when they read the ads and announcement. We don't blame them. For those who are interested in such services, we recommend they read the contents below. Thank you.   Who needs a web site ? Almost every individual or a small or medium or big business needs a web site today. It must be understood that web is a mass communication media like Print and TV. The biggest advantage is its low cost. Having a web site has several advantages. Your customers will know who you are and the products or services you are offering. Of course you have some businessmen who think all businesses that list on the internet are crooks and frauds. How you deal with them is purely your problem. In developed countries, even very expensive automobiles are bought and sold on the web. Dell computers was the first one to offer computers on line and the customers could specify the configuration. They could deliver faster, cheaper and it was most profitable for them because it eliminated 'middlemen'.    You can catalog all your offerings in one single place for customers to download and peruse. You can save considerable amount of money in printing and stationery costs. You will be surprised to learn that 98% of expensively produced literature or brochure is either thrown or filed away and never retrieved. You can make changes in design, electronically, and display it. In the case of printed brochures, you need to spend a fortune to print it again.    You can display the testimonials from existing customers on your web site. People can anonymously evaluate what you are offering from your web site before approaching you. It creates global awareness at very low costs. True, your market may be local, but we do not know from where the lucky break will come. We are basically management consultants by profession. One traditional artifact and soft toy (Teddy Bear) manufacturer in Chennai, TN, India was running a very small business with hardly any local sales and struggling for survival. We suggested that he display his products on the web. We recommended a web designer and an industrial photographer. This was more than 8 years ago. Today, he is a rupee multi millionaire exporting to USA and Europe and employing 30 highly skilled workers. Depending on the product or service, you may be able to offer e-commerce from your site through the shopping cart. However, you will need a secure payment gateway for that. There are number of very good service providers. We recommend Paypal. There are no entrance or subscription or membership fees. They just charge commissions and a small fee on the transactions. If you don't earn, you don't have to pay them anything. One can't be fairer than that. It is a win-win situation. Their servers are highly secure. What more do you want ? It is a good advertising, communication and PR tool. Considerable amount of marketing and sales promotion expenses can be saved. You can send e-mails from your own address. In business, your credibility becomes very low, if you use a free e-mail address with an advert or a tag line. Some local ISPs charge more for providing just e-mail services with 5 Mb disk space or less in developing countries. The chances of making a sale improves with web presence. It does not guarantee a sale. At the end of the day what you are offering makes a big difference. There are many more advantages but the above are the most important and relevant. How Does Internet Work ? We have given detailed explanations because many are not familiar with the subject in developing countries. Many potential customers do not even know how to set up a POP or IMAP access or understand what it is. They depend upon their local ISPs and suppliers, who charge exorbitantly. Many do not know that they need an ISP or a cable connection to connect to the net. Customers must realize that they cannot access the web without an ISPs gateway. It can be either directly through a phone or a cable operator. Many cybercafés in Kenya provide LAN connections of 100 Kbps bandwidth to shops on a monthly hire basis at KES 2500 per month for 24 hour access, through ISDN or ADSL modems. In such cases you do not have to be a subscriber to an ISP to access the net. Similar facilities are available in Uganda also. In India, most ISPs offer a dial up, pre paid service pack of specific duration to access the web, apart from the above service. The ISPs generally give an e-mail box for use along with the service pack in India. The customers can decide which ID is kept primary. Alternatively, one can be kept for personal and the other for business use. However, it is always sensible to have an alternate ID instead of a single one. The simple graphic below shows how internet works. It is not meant for techies and meant for laymen. Please right click on the image and download it to get the full size. Since almost all small customers, not familiar with the subject, keep asking whether they can connect to the web without an access to an ISP or a cable operator, we thought it fit to explain with a diagram as below.    Launch of Low Cost, World Class, Web Hosting We are pleased to launch our web hosting plans for  individuals and small businesses from mid January 2007 as per details below. Web space - 100 Mb/250 Mb/500 Mb Account activation will be done within 24 hours after  realization of payment, excluding Sundays and Public Holidays because the banks are closed. We work on all days but some banks don't. Price Freeze Guarantee within the contract period Set up on our server is free Reselling is not allowed Domain name registration is not part of the package. Customers will have to register their own domains. We can register your domains. Just click here. Order is non refundable and not cancelable once executed. We can host all TLDs including international domains with extensions like .in, ke., .ug etc., We will provide our DNS details for domain pointing. You need to incorporate the same in your domain control panel provided by your registrar. Please note it takes up to 96 hours for the  propagation of change of DNS on the internet. We will monitor the propagation and will keep the customers informed.  We provide 24x7x365 technical support by e-mail only. Our service support is based in India whereas our server is in USA. Because of the various time zones, please allow us 24 hours to resolve any issue. However, we doubt whether you will ever need it because the Control Panel is very user friendly. We offer low cost but not cheap web hosting. Just checkout the world class features mentioned below and than decide. Hardware Based in in a facility which has one of the best and world class internet backbone. The server is located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA with the provider based in Houston, Texas, USA. It is a Pentium server with 4 Intel microprocessors of 2 Gb processing speed. It is a virtual private server with a specific disk space, large burstable RAM and very large (60Gb) bandwidth hired out by us for our needs. It is a virtual private server with a dedicated disk space and adequate bandwidth hired out by us for our needs. We can keep on upgrading as and when required. Unlike shared hosting, the pages will load very quickly because the dedicated bandwidth is very high and traffic is shared with very few others. It is like driving on a high speed freeway with very limited traffic. One of the highest uptime guarantees in the business - 99.998%. Acts of God and Mother Nature excluded. We do not want to bore you with too many technical details and jargon. We draw up very stringent specifications. We do not compromise on vendor selection. You can be rest assured that it will be world class and comparable with the best in the world.  Must read Many web hosts try to sell you a large amount of web hosting space that then costs you a lot each month. However, you may not need this much space. Have you ever calculated just how much disc space (MB) your web site uses? Do you really need an expensive hosting solution for your web site? Prepare To Expand Your Hosting Plan over a period of time as your business expands. You may want to add pages, graphics, features eg scripts, databases etc, to your site in the future. Begin with a small hosting plan at first, and then expand it as you add new features. Check with your web host, if you can easily upgrade your hosting plan as you grow your site. You don’t want to go through the hassle of changing hosts every few months. Once you have determined your total site file size, check what hosting plan you have purchased and how much disc space has been allocated for your site. If you are only using 3mb of disc space but are paying for 100mb, then you may want to switch hosting plans and save yourself a ton of money each year - Herman Drost Herman Drost is a Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) owner and author of iSiteBuild.com Low Cost Hosting and Site Design Features offered: Madgopes 100/ 250/500 Plans Offer details Madgopes 100 Plan for individuals and SMEs Madgopes 250 plan for larger web presence by all businesses Madgopes 500 plan for super large presence Disk Space 100 MB 250 Mb 500 Mb IP address* Shared Shared Shared Price Freeze Guarantee within the agreed contract period Yes Yes Yes Setup on our server Free! Free! Free Money back and cancellation No No No Prices In US Dollars Madgopes 100 Plan Madgopes 250 Plan Madgopes 500 Plan Setup on our server Free! Free! Free Annual fee US$ 3.69 US$ 7.04 US$ 13.79 Fee for 2 years US$ 7.00 US$ 13.38 US$ 26.20 You can sign up for any of the above plan options with the same form. We will send you a Paypal invoice for making the payment.  Features  Madgopes 100/250/500 Plan Operating System Linux Email Accounts Unlimited Sub Domains Unlimited FTP Accounts Unlimited   MySQL Databases Unlimited 24/7 Technical Support by e-mail YES Anonymous FTP YES Email Forwarders Unlimited Email Aliases Unlimited Mailing Lists Unlimited Autoresponders Unlimited Catch-All Address YES Webmail Access YES SPAM Filtering YES POP3 Access YES SMTP Access YES PHP4 YES Perl 5 YES Site-Wide CGI Access YES C / C++ YES YES WYSIWYG HTML Online Editor YES SSI YES Cron Jobs YES FrontPage Extensions YES XML Support YES Access to Raw Logs YES Control Panel - provided by cPanel - Please click to see how the cPanel will look like YES Fantastico YES File Manager YES IP Deny Manger YES PhpMyAdmin YES Backup / Restore Utility YES Protected Directories YES AwStats Web Stats YES Custom Error Pages YES Shared SSL YES Search Engine Submit YES MX Record Modifications YES Network Tools YES Shopping Carts YES Hotlink Protection YES Custom MIME Types YES Index Manager YES Custom Apache Handlers YES Pre-Installed Scripts YES Optional Extras, if needed Charges Data Transfer $ 6.00 per month for each additional GB (1000 MB) of Data Transfer packet. Minimum one packet. Available on an annual basis only. Can be adjusted prorata basis, coinciding with the expiry date. Extra Disk Space Will be done to the next higher Madgopes Plan against payment. Prorata adjustments can be done, if necessary. * Dedicated IP Address, if required $ 36.00 per annum for each dedicated IP address We are always in the process of up gradation, improvement and try to offer the best combination of hardware and software. In this process, some features might be added and some may be no longer available. It must be noted that we reserve the rights to change the features and specifications of the packages offered. Note from the Webmaster We are in the web publishing business for the last 8 years. The total space occupied by us is 24.5 Mb, excluding the MySQL databases. The total space occupied, including all databases, is around 200 Mb as against allotted space of 15 Gb. We operate and run 7 domains. We do not need more space. We need more bandwidth because our annual visitors were around 2 million in 2006. However, if you go in for building a lot of MySQL databases online, you will need more space. The space can always be added on at a later date. You can always upgrade as and when required. It is not the space, it is the bandwidth that is critical in web hosting applications. Many hosts, especially resellers, do what is called 'Overselling' in the industry. They will sell you a large space knowing fully well that you will never need or use it. You must understand how a computer works. The hard disk stores data in a random fashion anywhere on the disk. Large data is stored in multiple sectors. Only a computer can put it together for retrieval. In shared hosting you do not get any partition of disk in your favor. Try asking for extra bandwidth instead and you will know the true picture. Why is bandwidth important ? We will explain it in layman's terms. It is like building a gate of some width for your home or factory or office. At a time, a few people that it is designed for, can get in. But if too many people try to get in at the same time, what happens to the gate ? If you run a popular web site, than you will need a lot of bandwidth for it to be accessible to more people at the same time. A site like Yahoo gets zillions of hits in a day !  Just imagine the bandwidth required. But, bandwidth is very expensive. Matching bandwidth required to fluctuating traffic is not easy. However, you should not forget that internet is a 24x7x365 medium. Your pages can be accessed 24 hours from any part of the world. We found out that 3.00 AM and 4 PM , Mountain Time, Utah, USA are the periods we have maximum traffic in a day. Similarly, the traffic is at the maximum on Tuesdays and Fridays. Lastly, some hosts will advertise very low rates that appear too good to be true. That is 'Phishing'. It is a bait on a hook to just attract you to the site. Such offers will be tagged along with some other products or services that are overpriced. It is called 'bundling' in the industry - Madhavan T Gopalachary - Webmaster and Chief Editor - Madgopes.com  Important points to be noted: We provide the web hosting for domains but customers will have to manage their own site. Our service is restricted to offering hosting and its technical support. We have introduced 'managed hosting' from May 2007. For more details, please get in touch with us.  Any spam reported from the customers account will entail suspension of the account immediately, after investigations from our end. We will make sure that the customers are not victims to spammers. No refunds are permissible in such cases. Our decision in the matter is final. Repeat, we have an absolute zero tolerance policy on spam. The customers must observe all US Laws that are applicable as the server is based in USA. No pornographic, gambling, immoral, illegal activities and hate mongering will be permitted. As a policy, we will not allow any sectarian, religious, political and fanatical groups to host with us. If found, the account will be suspended without notice and no refunds will be permissible. We reserve our rights to monitor, occasionally, the web sites that are hosted with us for any activities that are not morally and socially acceptable. This will be based on Public Interest and complaints received. All are requested to peruse our terms and conditions by clicking on the link. Payments are presently accepted through Paypal or Wire Transfer or Western Union Money Transfer or Bankers Cheques. Any disputes with us are subject to the jurisdiction of courts in Chennai, TN, India. We however, reserve the rights of invoking the jurisdiction of any US or other courts, as deemed fit and found necessary, to enforce our rights. Assuming your average page or object size is 20Kb, you will be able to host 12500 pages and objects under Madgopes 250 plan. We do not compromise on integrity, principles, values and ethics. We want the customers to understand us very well and what we stand for. We believe in earning money the honest way. There is no fine print or gimmick or hidden cost. We are totally transparent in all our business dealings. The fact remains that we can be compared to the very best in the world, in anything we do, even though we are a very small outfit. It is not arrogance or conceitedness. It is sheer self confidence.  If anyone can offer better terms, conditions, facilities and service than above, without hidden costs, we have no complaints if you opt for them. We reserve our rights to modify the terms and conditions without notice due to circumstances beyond our control. If the above is acceptable, please click on the link to go to the ordering page. We look forward to having you as our valued customer. The service support is in place. We have launched the services on January 15, 2007. www.mmguniversal.com is fully operational and it is all systems go. In case you need any further details or clarifications, please send mail to: sales@mmguniversal.com or ipr@mmg.name. Thank you for your time and visit. Have a good day. Information & Public Relations Team E&OE We have launched e-mail services simultaneously. Click here for details © Copyright, Jul-08 . www.mmguniversal.com. Without prejudice. All rights reserved