ArzHost
ArzHost (arzhost.com), my cPanel web hosting business from 2004 to 2005: the PHP marketing site with plans and signup, and the client sites it hosted, including dislexikfilms.com, my-sms.net, omish.org, qlint.com, superfriends.biz, tdusgaming.com, toujoursphotography.com and vampyredork.com.
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- 2003–2005
Copyright 2003 Arzynik
In August 2003 arzhost.com was a login form. Username and Password, "Arzhost :: Login" twice because the title and the header said the same thing, and a footer reading Copyright 2003 Arzynik. That was my hosting company on day one.
The rest came through redesigns in 2004, 2007 and 2008: a PHP signup flow, hosting plan pages, cPanel and WHM copy, and support docs, so I could answer questions once instead of every night.
On September 29 2008 I posted a new design for the hosting I provided to my clients, and said I'd stopped hosting strangers and was sending them to Media Temple or Dreamhost instead. It ran for five years.
OC-12, Eleven Backbone Providers
The ArzHost pitch was echoed out of PHP as one long string of table tags: plans "ranging from full corporate hosting to easily modified, dynamic, preinstalled websites." Every plan came with cPanel. And the number I was proudest of: "our OC-12 (622 Mbps) with 11 backbone providers is one of the fastest and most reliable web hosting networks available."
I didn't own an OC-12. I was reselling, and my upstream had one. The site also mentioned that ArzHost offered design services from arzynik.com, which was also me.
The best part was the customers: dislexikfilms.com, my-sms.net, qlint.com, superfriends.biz, tdusgaming.com, toujoursphotography.com, vampyredork.com, eltoro, janiebooks, purpledaisykids, cooking, cryptoad5, fallacy. A film company, a photographer, a gaming clan, a clothing line, a punk band. Years later I wrote that I had "stoped giving hosting to strangers" and started pointing people at Media Temple.
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- Zectre2026my hosting company
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