CESHosting is a web site hosting service provided by Cracked Egg Studios. It was offered publicly from January 19, 2006, until February 16, 2007, available through the subdomain hosting.crackedeggstudios.com. Although the service is no longer available to the general public, Cracked Egg Studios continues to provide hosting for a number of affiliated companies and individuals to this day.
History
During the early months of the Cracked Egg Studios web site, it was hosted by a free hosting service with a number of limitations. Ted Phillips researched various free and paid hosts in an effort to expand the web site's capabilities, specifically the capability to host and stream video content.
When he eventually settled a new host on January 13, 2006, the studio ended up with over a thousand times more disk space than before -- more than the studio thought it could ever use -- and the benefit of permission to resell hosting space. The studio determined that it could undercut the pricing of all other hosts online, sell a humble amount of hosting slots, and have the switch to the new server work out to be a free, or even, profitable change.
CESHosting received its first customer during private presale on January 16, 2006, and launched January 19, 2006. Throughout the life of the service, Cracked Egg Studios sold only a handful of hosting packages. It stopped offering new accounts to the public on February 16, 2007, when it migrated to a new host with different terms, but it has continued to maintain its existing accounts and provide services to some employees and affiliates.
One of their earliest and most long-lived clients was the historical Free United Club of Kids, who began using the service January 26, 2006, and maintained their account until Cracked Egg Studios acquired their web site in October 2009.
When he eventually settled a new host on January 13, 2006, the studio ended up with over a thousand times more disk space than before -- more than the studio thought it could ever use -- and the benefit of permission to resell hosting space. The studio determined that it could undercut the pricing of all other hosts online, sell a humble amount of hosting slots, and have the switch to the new server work out to be a free, or even, profitable change.
CESHosting received its first customer during private presale on January 16, 2006, and launched January 19, 2006. Throughout the life of the service, Cracked Egg Studios sold only a handful of hosting packages. It stopped offering new accounts to the public on February 16, 2007, when it migrated to a new host with different terms, but it has continued to maintain its existing accounts and provide services to some employees and affiliates.
One of their earliest and most long-lived clients was the historical Free United Club of Kids, who began using the service January 26, 2006, and maintained their account until Cracked Egg Studios acquired their web site in October 2009.
Hosting Plans
Cracked Egg Studios launched the CESHosting service on January 19, 2006, with 3 available packages: Ultimate, Supreme, and CES Network Partner.
The Ultimate Package provided 1 GB of disk space, unlimited bandwidth, file manager access, support for ASP, SSI, PHP, SQL databases, ColdFusion, streaming audio and video, and did not mandate embedded advertisements. It was offered for $1.49 per month.
The Supreme Package provided everything in the Ultimate Package, with 1 free .com domain name, and unlimited hosted email accounts. It was offered for $2.49 per month.
The CES Network Partner package was the same as the Ultimate Package, but it was only offered to members of CESNetwork, a service available through CES.WS. Partners could use their own .ws domain name for a one-time fee of $5.00. The package was offered for $0.99 per month.
All packages could purchase additional disk space in increments of 1 GB, at an additional price of $1.00 per month each.
The Ultimate Package provided 1 GB of disk space, unlimited bandwidth, file manager access, support for ASP, SSI, PHP, SQL databases, ColdFusion, streaming audio and video, and did not mandate embedded advertisements. It was offered for $1.49 per month.
The Supreme Package provided everything in the Ultimate Package, with 1 free .com domain name, and unlimited hosted email accounts. It was offered for $2.49 per month.
The CES Network Partner package was the same as the Ultimate Package, but it was only offered to members of CESNetwork, a service available through CES.WS. Partners could use their own .ws domain name for a one-time fee of $5.00. The package was offered for $0.99 per month.
All packages could purchase additional disk space in increments of 1 GB, at an additional price of $1.00 per month each.