Ever wonder what it would be like to be able to submit an new idea or vote on new features with your service and actually have your ideas put into a production environment? As I wrote in my previous post (http://www.davincismind.com/2019/01/25/the-internet-is-evolving-business/) , the internet is evolving business as we know it.

If your a developer, you may want a new kind of cloud infrastructure with a specific configuration that no one else has.  Imagine petitioning for a new cloud infrastructure to have pre-provisioned inside your control panel? Imagine the possibilities and the amount of configurations which a server cluster can have. 

This has become more and more important to have this kind of service due to the the many new kinds of programming languages and platforms coming out. It would be a dream for a developer to decide what kind of environment they need on the fly. Those environments can be pre-provisioned and tweeked toward their liking. Developers would be able to also communicate with others who are interested in the same type of cloud configurations. If by any chance the developer doesn’t want to be on their current cluster, they can migrate to one that is more toward their liking or they can petition to have a whole new type of web cluster created.

The amount of innovation which would occur by developers working together socially and communicating about specific cloud configurations is endless. Imagine if a code share option was integrated into it. The main  idea is to provide as much flexibility into a cloud hosting platform as possible. 

For the novice users, they can vote on specific features they would like to see in their service or recommend changes that they don’t like. Instead of having to find another hosting provider that offers that kind of service and experience all the headaches of migration, they can just vote in their request. An example would be if they wanted to see their website traffic on their homepage instead of having to dig through the control panel to find the option.

Now some people may think a cooperative sounds communistic but in reality it is a true democracy.  Imagine this… You have the United States… Each state is a server configuration with its own users and rules. Each user can migrate to different clusters (or States) if they choose to. Users could also choose to vote in completely new clusters with new configurations. (Create New States). The main difference is there is no limit to how many new kinds of clusters or (states) you can have. While you can vote on different individual clusters, you still have the option to vote on company wide issues. This would be similar to voting on a federal level. Imagine our current democracy digitized and all the bureaucracy removed and ran on a hosting company. 

Now keep in mind, the coop is still under complete control from its elected directors, but their main goal is to veto anything that would be harmful to the company from a vote and to maintain operations of the company. Board members are elected by the customers just as we have elections within our own government.

Note: BAD GUYS CAN NOT GET ON THIS PLATFORM! The reason because each new member is vetted to find out the purpose of the website they are using the service for before they join the service. This will wipe out the spammers and bad or illegal websites before they get on the platform. Instead of finding out about the bad sites later and then having to take action, we prevent the problem before it becomes a problem. This is also why we start our pricing at $100/year and not a monthly option. Though if a user wants to cancel, we will provide a prorated refund. This prevents a lot of fraudsters who just get a cheap hosting account to abuse it via spam or phishing sites.

Last but not least,  If you also calculate the price for the year of service and compare it to other companies you will find that the $100/year is much cheaper than competition, especially with the amount of resources we provide. Since the company is run as a non-profit, money can be reinvested to the company for providing members discounts based on loyalty instead of the worry about new customers. We can also provide better hardware, server and website redundancy, so their websites are never taken down or hacked.

As we continue to grow, we need your help. WebHosting.coop is based on it’s community members and need your input. We want to thank our current members for being with us through our growth and wish to see our community grow and gather more talent to help us bring our vision to life.