Time and Tide waits for No Man

Have to agree with this saying. I started out when the web hosting industry is still in its infancy. There was a huge potential for growth. Working part time while studying , I managed to recruit enough resellers and got enough sales to be promoted to the country manager for the web hosting company I was reselling for.

Time and Tide was not waiting for me, it was going along with me : ) , pushing me forward. Thinking back, it is really a matter of timing. If I am to do this all over again at this time with the maturing of the hosting market, I don't think I can do that. Singapore Web Hosting

Adversity became Strength

I was preparing for my Final Year Project which allows me 24 hours access into the CAD/CAM Centre with rows and rows of empty Sun Ultras. This was not only my project place but also the place where I cut my teeth on hosting, exploring and searching for knowledge as well as learning the technical skills behind hosting. Singapore Web Hosting

Really Knew Nothing

When I first started, I signed up as a reseller for one of the USA companies. They did not require payment upfront but will pay a onetime commission as well as monthly commissions. I was from an engineering background, the architecture of Internet I do know, but what is hosting. What is virtual hosting versus dedicated hosting. What is sub domain name. I never knew of such when I started selling as a reseller about 10 years ago.

At that time , there was no commercial ISP in Singapore, only a Technet, which were normally used by the universities and research organisation. Netscape is unknown, I do know Gopher.

I was groping about the darkness when I first started. To think of it , really quite funny. It was more of a curosity that I signed up and I never never expected that it would be my career!
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Formation of 8 to Infinity

8 to Infinity is formed by me in 1997. We started out as a home based business, with a phone line and a Pentium 100 machine with external modem.

In the start , it wasn't easy at all. We started out by getting reseller packages from USA. We seemed to step on the toes of many, with a lot of rumours, saying we were hosting from home on a 56kbps modem and so on. Rumours saying we were "fly by night" type of hosts. Some were even predicting our demise dates : ). Singapore Web Hosting and Malaysia Web Hosting

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8 to Infinity provides Singapore, Hong Kong and USA Web hosting
for users throughout the world. We have Linux, Unix and Windows
2003 virtual and dedicated servers and have been hosting since 1997!
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