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Web Design, Server Admin, & Vanilla Forums Specialist

Python — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:06:48 +0000

I highly recommend my friend Ramesh for Website Design & Server Administration, and he's a Vanilla Forums Specialist. Lastly, he's very good at Mastodon Social configurations.

For over 10 years Ramesh has been the most honest person & the best Server Administrator I've ever encountered.

📧 Email: ramesh@exoboosters.tech
● Website: https://exoboosters.tech/
● $30/hr.

Looking to hire a content writer from India

DeluxeNames — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 03:23:15 +0000

Looking for a content writer from India to make 20 posts/month in English about hosting topics and the hosting community in India. This is an ideal opportunity for a teen or retired person.

I pay monthly via PayPal or Venmo. Paying $10/month for 20 posts (each post consists of 3 sentences or more) with fast increases in pay based on performance for the best Content Writer.

We will specifically cater to the English speaking Indian community & promote the rising IT & webhosting strength in India. The System Admin who runs the website is likewise, Indian. No need for a resume, simply email:
Bogastow.MA(at)gmail.com

Hostboards Proud to Be Named Top 12 Hosting Forum!

DeluxeNames — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:44:42 +0000

Hostboards is both proud & honored to be named as one of the top 12 Web Hosting forums in the world as seen here:
https://www.hostnamaste.com/blog/top-10-web-hosting-forums/

A huge thanks to @HostNamaste for this honor!

Hostboards Partners with Mastodon.tech to fulfill your "Tech" passion

DeluxeNames — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 17:54:28 +0000

Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter, there's been some exodus to sites like Pleroma. Hostboards has decided to launch the Twitter like Mastodon.tech that runs on Pleroma software to go hand-in-hand with Hostboards to focus on technology. Register for our brand new "Tech" instance here:
https://Mastodon.Tech/signup

Don't miss the "Computers & Tech" category here at HostBoards:
https://hostboards.com/categories/computers-technology

Easy Share Social Media Buttons Now Added!

DeluxeNames — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 10:20:21 +0000

Take a look at the bottom of your screen at Host Boards and you'll see our newest feature, Easy Share Social Media Buttons Now Added!

Now you can instantly tweet or Facebook Share your epiphanies & brilliant ideas! Thanks to Host Boards secret weapon @abytecurious for this upgrade!

SIGNATURES ENABLED! 20 Posts Needed

DeluxeNames — Wed, 19 May 2021 17:13:42 +0000

We're excited to announce Custom signatures are enabled for free advertising & SEO here at Host Boards!

Feel free to promote your sites/blogs. This feature is thanks to our hardest working Admin, @abytecurious!

Custom Signatures Enabled on the forum

abytecurious — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 17:10:09 +0000

Hey folks. Custom signatures are enabled on the forum. Feel free to promote your sites/blogs. For now, everyone can use signatures. Once the Ranks are established, we can allow signatures for higher levels (to prevent spam and links just for SEO).

Congratulations to Skorupion on becoming our newest Moderator!

DeluxeNames — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:48:08 +0000

Congratulations to @skorupion on becoming our newest Moderator!

@skorupion has been good at IT and Computer Science for a long time.

Skorupion hails from Poland where he's finishing school and has been incredibly helpful to this forum.

Host Boards is so very lucky to have Skorupion on the team!

Congratulations to AByteCurious for becomoing our newest Admin!

DeluxeNames — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:56:43 +0000

Dear Members,

Please help me congratulate @Abytecurious on becoming our newest Administrator!

I want to thank AByteCurios for all his hard work for Host Boards and mention that he is an incredible PHP Coder as well as being strong with Forum Software and databases.

I Highly recommend him for being trustworthy and getting the job done.

To hire him, please send a private message to his username @abytecurious

RULES

DeluxeNames — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 05:59:36 +0000

Welcome to HostBoards hosting discussion!

We strive to be a welcoming & safe community to industry veterans & hobbyists alike. We are known as the "many name" forum because we've had several names since our start in April 2004:
DevDreams.com,
WebmasterPost.com,
---- & now ----
HostBoards.com

Registered but don't recognize us? - You likely signed up under one of our previous names since 2004 when we were using vBulletin.
Your posts are missing? In 2018, we were hacked which destroyed several years of posts. Thus we're resurrected on Vanilla Forums

CIVILIZED DISCUSSION

We are a shared community – a place to share skills, knowledge, and interests through ongoing conversation.

RULES

1) Treat others as you wish to be treated.
2) Don’t start a thread in the wrong category
3) Don’t create multiple threads for the same topic
4) Don’t spam
5) Use English as our language of discussion.
6) Flag posts and/or threads that you believe should be reviewed by staff

DON'T:

1) Slander or defame others without proof - it will be deleted.
2) Commit attacks for personal instead of topic-related reasons.
3) Engage in name-calling
4) Respond to a post’s tone instead of its content

ADD TO THE DISCUSSION:

The topics discussed here matter to us, and we want you to act as if they matter to you, too. Be respectful of the topics and the people discussing them, even if you disagree with some of what is being said.

OFFERS

You should provide company information (where applicable) within your offer, and include your brand name/company name within the thread title. Please leave at least a week between offers to avoid suspension.

You do not need a provider tag to post offers. You’ll automatically be assigned a tag when you’re recognised as a reputable provider.

PROBLEMS

Administrators and moderators are responsible for this forum, but so are you. With your help, moderators can be community facilitators, not just janitors or police. If you see something that breaks the rules, flag it. Flags are taken seriously and dealt with in a timely manner.

STAFF

@DeluxeNames (Co-op Member/ Admin)
@Python (Co-op Member/ Admin)
@HostBend (Co-op Member / Admin)
@HostXNow (Co-op Member / Admin)
@Abytecurious (Admin)
@Jared Ritchey & @Jared (Admin)
@Nuvo (Forum Leader)
@skorupion (Moderator)
@Cloudmate (Moderator)
@boruto (Moderator)
@MGDesigns (Moderator)
@Katra (Moderator)
@xPureNLx (Moderator)
@tony (Moderator)
@pfgannon (Moderator)
@CannonBallGuy (Moderator)

VIP's - Very Important Persons

Dave Mo - Former owner of one of the largest Webmaster Forums: "Webmaster-Talk"

@-rj- - Former Owner of NamePros.com with over 43,000 active members - https://www.namepros.com/

Thanks for being a Member of Host Boards!

Host Boards' Trusted Partners

skorupion — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 18:23:54 +0000

Premium Trusted Providers (each name is a link)

Banned providers:

YouStable & GoogieHost - Same owner. They spam forums & offer poor customer service.

Degoo - According to reviews, they offer "lifetime" storage. Then, when the 30 days refund period has passed, Degoo.com scan your disks to cancel your account for "copyrighted" material & accuse you of having it even when it's documents you have a right to use. Most appeals are denied & they keep your money.

Flaunt7 - Runs the same scam as "Degoo" above according to many reviewers.

DewlanceVPS - A history of poor customer service.

Congratulations to Cloudmate for becomoing our newest Moderator!

DeluxeNames — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 15:01:50 +0000

congratulations to @cloudmate upon his promotion to Moderator of Host Boards! He now joins @skorupion as one of our newest two Moderators!

I met Cloudmate last year and he's been an awesome System Admin for me as well as a loyal Advisor.

I highly recommend the System Admin Skills of Cloudmate and encourage you to consider using him as your host by going to:
https://CloudMate.in/

Thank you CloudMate for all you've done and continue to do for Host Boards!

Sincerely,
DeluxeNames

New "Contests" Section

DeluxeNames — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 09:46:45 +0000

It's high time we had a "Contests" thread
It's not just for contests sponsored by Host Boards, if your running a contest, feel free to post it there:
http://www.webmasterpost.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=101

Buy Ad Space & Text Links on HostBoards

DeluxeNames — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:48:52 +0000

This forum, Host Boards, is selling advertising:

30 Days Header Banner Ad - $50
30 Days Footer Banner Ad - $35
30 Days Side Banner Ad - $20

Text Links
Text Link 1 - $15 per month
Displayed on all sites pages.

Text Link 2 - $10 per month
Displayed in forum footer

Premium Listing - $5 per month
Listed top in a directory category

Special Offer: Spend more than $100 per month and get one link of choice absolutely free.

Graphic Advert Space
120 x 240 Pixels - $24 per month
Image displayed on all pages of website.

120 x 90 Pixels - $20 per month
Image displayed on all pages of website.

120 x 60 Pixels - $18 per month
Image displayed on all pages of website.

88 x 31 Pixels - $15 per month
Image displayed on all pages of website.

468 X 60 Pixels - $55 per month
Image displayed on all forum pages at bottom

468 X 60 Pixels - $65 per month
Image displayed on all forum pages at top

234 x 60 Pixels - $22 per month
Image displayed on some forum pages(post, view forum, view topic, memberlist, register, login).

Special Offer: Spend more than $250 per month and get one advert of choice absolutely free.

Impressions
1000 Impressions - $6
Webmaster Targeted Traffic - Non Unique

5000 Impressions - $25
Webmaster Targeted Traffic - Non Unique

10000 Impressions - $45
Webmaster Targeted Traffic - Non Unique

50000 Impressions - $200
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100000 Impressions - $380
Webmaster Targeted Traffic - Non Unique

Special Offer: Spend more than $100 and get 1000 free impressions

Pay Per Click
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Webmaster Targeted Traffic - Non Unique

Special Offer: Spend more than $30 per month and get $5 worth of clicks free

Site Info
http://www.HostBoards.com
The sites home page has a PR.
Site is listed in google, yahoo, msn and other major search engines.
Site is being linked to by about 8 PR 6 sites, 25+ PR 5 sites, and many more sites with a lower PR.

It is being advertised on various webmaster related sites. It is in dmoz.org and many other directories.

Order
If interested Private Message @DeluxeNames here at this forum.

Thank you,
Host Boards

Host Boards Publicly Thanks NamePros.com!

DeluxeNames — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:33:22 +0000

I wish to publicly thank my friend and a truly great guy, RJ, the owner of www.NamePros.com for the Adspace in his header during our Grand Opening!

While we are a Hosting & Webmaster Forum, those looking for domain related information should check out: www.NamePros.com with over 43,000 active members!
:rockon:

Congratulations to MGDesigns!

DeluxeNames — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:48:09 +0000

Host Boards rewards excelence in their Moderators. MGDesigns has been doing so much for Host Boards both in the fourms and behind the scenes. She has been the very definition of excelence. That is why I'm proud to promote her to the role of Admin!

I also want to take a second to thank our amazing Forum Leader Nuvo, and our hardworking Moderators, Tony, Paul G., xPureNLx, CBG, and Jared. I may be biased but I think we've got the best team of any Webhosting Forum!

Need Traffic? Want Free Link From Host Boards? Then Submit Your Tutorial

DeluxeNames — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:31:30 +0000

Do you have Tutorials on your site? If you go to our C.M.S.: www.WebmasterPost.com and click "submit". It's a quick and easy process to submit your tutorial. When someone clicks on your tutorial, it will send people to your site, giving you valuable traffic. Already 21 tutorials have been submitted in the two short weeks that our C.M.S. has been up

By the way, 6 of the tutorials are WP's own original Tutorials, they are the first 6 at this link: http://www.webmasterpost.com/view_tutorials/Adobe_Photoshop/All/

New C.M.S. Frontpage Design!

DeluxeNames — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:20:11 +0000

I'm very excited to announce (and I'm sure you've seen it) that WebmasterPost has a brand new Frontpage design thanks to Kalina of www.KalinaWebDesigns.com!

It's a work in progress as we take the feedback you give us and continue to tweak it.

Thanks Kalina!

New Section: "Show It Off: Graphic Art Reviews

DeluxeNames — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:23:55 +0000

Some of you create the most amazing graphic art so we really needed a section for us to take a peak: "Show It Off: Graphic Art Reviews".

You will also notices that, due to a member suggestion, another section was enlarged to include "Web Video" topics. The "Animations" section is now entitled, "Animation and Web Video" to cover YouTube type of use of video in websites.

Congratulations to Katra on Her Promotion to Moderator!

DeluxeNames — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 13:00:26 +0000

Most everyone knows Katra around here, our Picaso of the Grapic Art world . What most of you don't know is how helpful she has been behind the scenes as she has given this forum some great advice (truly a wise woman).

That's why I'm so pleased to say CONGRATULATIONS to Katra on her promoton to Moderator!

A little about Katra:
Specializing in 3d renderings and tags, Katra is has been ranked among the top 10 Graphic Artists in the world by ArtWanted.com (http://www.artwanted.com/Katra)

She has also been featured in Deviantart.com (http://ko-nceptions.deviantart.com)

You will find her own site (http://www.katra.co.uk) to be equally smashing

Congratulations to xPureNLx on becoming our newest Moderator!

DeluxeNames — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:28:49 +0000

Congratulations to xPureNLx on becoming our newest Moderator!

xPureNLx, is a Designer and Programmer from the Netherlands who creates some of the best Anime I've ever seen.

xPureNLx has been a Super Moderator before and comes in as a pro (and has been incredibly helpful to this forum).

Host Boards is so very lucky to have xPureNLx on the team!

Your Forum $ Can Buy you - A Domain Name!

DeluxeNames — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:08:35 +0000

Now your Forum Money that you earn at WebmasterPost can earn you a Domain Name!

Any new members that sign up from Monday, 9/18/06, on, can turn in their first 100 Forum$ that they earn for a domain name. (donated Froum$ does not count).

Here's how you earn Forum$:
Referral (getting your friends to sign up)..3 Forum$
New Thread..........................................2 Forum$
New Post..............................................1 Forum$

For all existing members, everyone's previous Forum$ was reset to "0" to reflect this new Forum Money system.

When you earn you first 100 in Forum$, (must be earned, can't come from a donation) private message the Admins. Once the Admins verify it, you'll receive 1 free new domain registration from our own registration service (from our Enom.com reseller account). You can choose from, .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, or .us.

Missing content, dead links and DevDreams.

Nuvo — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:10:20 +0000

Since the topic Python (the old owner) created regarding this has sort of, erm, vanished, I'll do this instead.

I can't access XYZ page:
The site, rather unfortunately, had a slight problem earlier in the year.
When I say slight, I actually mean that the old hosting company that Python used decided to pack up and run for the hills without telling anyone of giving them chance to get a recent backup.
This caused the death of pretty much every site Python had up at the time, including DevDreams and Tutorial Dash.
DevDreams was saved by Python having an older backup of the site saved on his local system, which is pretty much what is being used at the moment until the relaunch under the new title and new ownership.
Basically, if you can't access a tutorial, chances are that it's gone from the database, but if it's a more recent tutorial (after around May 2006), you should try contacting the Admin, DeluxeNames.

Linking to DevDreams, what to do:
Links to DevDreams are still usable and will remain so permanently. Since the site is pretty much the same underneath the cosmetic changes, changing devdreams to webmasterpost in the URL's you're using should fix things right up.
If you've tried changing the URL and you get a dead link, it's possible that the page you're linking to either no longer exists, or has been moved.

OMG WHERE IS DEVDREAMS???:
DevDreams was put up for sale shortly after being revived from the previously mentioned crash so that Python could put more time into new projects. The site was eventually bought by Bryant, who goes by DeluxeNames.

The site was renamed to Webmaster Post, and a redesign of the actual site came about.
The new banner was created through a competition, which statd won with CannonBallGuy in second place (the prize was $150 USD).

Where's Python and the rest of the old gang:
Many older members are still around.
Python built a new site at TutorialDash.com but has since sold it, and it's not clear what he's working on now.
Danielneri, CannonBallGuy, Tony, myself and some others can still be found floating about.

Forum Improvements!

DeluxeNames — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:31:34 +0000

The Admins, Forum Leaders, Moderators & Staff take this forum seriously and are working hard to improve it.

We have added several Modifications to the Forum to make it even better:
1) vbPlaza: A Forum Money (points) and store system for vBulletin (Does a lot more than that as you'll soon see)
You will receive:
$3 for every new thread
$1 for every new post

In time, the team will come up with great ways you can spend your Forum Points (like Forum Gambling coming soon)

2)An Online Store:
There is a $1 usd one time fee for any regular members to add an item/service to the store. If interested, private message me with the details of what you'd like to add.

To reward you hardworking Forum Leaders Moderators, & Staff you can now add your own items and services to our online store for free. Simply go to the "Online Store" link to post your items.

3) Advanced Forum Statistics (these are a lot of fun):
Forum Statistics for:
-Latest Forum News
-Newest Members
-Top Posters
-Top Thread Starters
-Most Viewed Threads
-Top Reputations
-Latest Posts

Thank you to our WemasterPost Staff: WebFreak, for all his hardwork on this the last several days.

Congradulations to Nuvo on Promotion to Forum Leader

DeluxeNames — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:03:06 +0000

Jared and I wish to express our congratulations to Nuvo upon his promotion to Forum Leader of Host Boards! He now joins Python as our 2nd Forum Leader.

Since the time Nuvo joined the forum in 2005, he has consistently proven himself to be a dedicated and hardworking Moderator.

Thank you Nuvo for all you've done and continue to do for HostBoards/DevDreams!

Sincerely,
Bryant and Jared
& the whole Host Boards team

The Hardest Working Admin

DeluxeNames — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:54:00 +0000

Our hardest working Admin, Jared, was at it again today as he re-desinged the whole site. Your design looks amazing Jared, thank you!
-B

Forum UPDATED to vBulletin Version 3.6.0

JaredRitchey — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:32:19 +0000

After considering many features and changes we have upgraded the forum to the latest and greatest of vBulletin.

Now on the list is the addition of some featues that are sure to be major benefits to users and the new interface which is almost complete.

~ Jared

Congratulations to Our 3 New Moderators!!!

DeluxeNames — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:55:39 +0000

WebmasterPost is very proud and pleased to Congratulate MGDesigns on her becoming a WebmasterPost Moderator!

Welcome to the team!
A big thank you also to all our current Moderators and our Admin, Python, for making this a great community!

Introduction

DeluxeNames — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:07:45 +0000

I want to introduce myself, I'm one of the new Admins here at the former DevDreams, now Host Boards. I look forward to meeting everyone soon.

I want to publicly thank our other Admin, Python, for the amazing work he's done to build this forum to where it is today and for the TON of work he continues to do behind the scenes.

Our goal is to turn HostBoards.com into a place that Hosts find helpful & love. A place to exchange ideas & advice.

We will need everyone's help with suggestions and advice on how to make Host Boards into a place you enjoy. Please tell me what categories and features you want to see added or changed.

The new Logo/Header contest to create the design to be displayed above this forum has now started and ends August 18th. The winner receives $150 & You can find the details in the contest section.

Thank you to everyone that has already contributed so much to DevDreams/Host Boards with your posts, time, and ideas. You are what make us great.

A Rough Week...

Python — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:34:39 +0000

What can I say? Im still suffering from the consequences and as you can probably see so is this website & forum.

Ok so heres basically what has happened over the last few days...

As you may/may not know I was hosting with ViveHosting who up to a few days ago was doing great with no problems at all. Then suddenly out of nowhere they dissapear along with all my websites and databases. I didnt know what to do to begin with. I waited 2 days for them to come back but unfortunately they did not.

Today I bought a new hosting package at asmallorange.com and began transffering my backed up data to the new server.

Unfortunately some of your member accounts will be missing.

Therefore if you have registered an account with us before and cant login now - this is most probably the reason.

Thanks to those who are helping us get back on our feet