For the last 3 years I have been heavily involved in a student association at Concordia University (www.concordia.ca) in Canada.

I ended up being the president of the Commerce Entrepreneurship and Management Association (CEMA) in the past year and its been terrific. This is a business oriented student association that grabs a lot of attention on its 30,000-student campus. The association promotes and trying to advance entrepreneurship in Canada, which is why CEMA also represents ACE Canada at the university.

In the past year we received national exposure through CBC Radio (Canada) and through local media coverage. We have received two top awards from our school: Best Initiate of the Year and Best Association of the Year. Both are the first awards for our young organization with big ambitions.

Volunteer-driven CEMA is solely business minded (non-profit) association that invites students to participate in a variety of projects and ventures run by CEMA wit all proceeds going to supporting the association and its cause.


On behalf of CEMA (I'm no longer part of the association since I am in the process of graduating), I'm looking for a RELIABLE provider who will make sure that the web site is always operational (99.9%) and fast.

Sponsorship would include web hosting for two web sites run by CEMA:

CEMA Official web site itself:
http://www.cema-jmsb.ca

One of CEMA's ventures:
http://www.montrealjobs.org


What we are looking for:

250-500 MB of space
5 GB monthly bandwidth (both web sites consume around 1 GB per month. However, if we release video from one of our events, traffic might jump to around 3-4 GB /mo.
CPanel with Webalizer (Awstats would do, too)
PHP/MySQL
E-Mails, all the basics.
*Fantastico is a plus
HELP WITH MOVING BOTH SITES IS HIGHLY APPRECIATED!

What we can offer:

- Mention of the sponsored web hosting company on CEMA web site with a link
- A text-link at MontrealJobs.org "Powered by YOUR COMPANY"

This is a student association, so the traffic is limited and NOT impressive (around maybe 1000-2000 visitors per month for both sites)

Why should you sponsor?

CEMA is becoming a respectable student association on our campus, we take on a lot of great projects, so you will be supporting/sponsoring great cause and very aspiring and talented students (most of them want to grow to become successful entrepreneurs).
It adds to your company's credibility and might potentially bring more clients in future.


I will allow myself to be picky. I know enough about the industry, so I prefer some recognizable company to take up this quest, not because we don't trust small ventures, but because we're looking for long-term stability.

We are not rushed into making a decision fast, so we'll take our time picking our provider. Thank you all!

Is my company good enough for your sponsorship?

Hi Artashes,

We are very intersted in sponsoring CEMA websites.

What we can offer to you is our BUSINESS PLAN. Please visit our website for details.

We had only two planned downtimes during 2005. because of software/hardware update/upgrade. We will have another planned 10-15 minutes downtime next week.

Thanks guys so much for being so kind.
I received many offers and will be reviewing them in the days to come.

Hello Art,

AvidNewMedia would be happy to sponsor your sites. Our smallest package is our Express Plan, but it will give you room to grow as well. However, if you feel you'll never need/use that, we can of course tailor the package to your above specifics.

AvidNewMedia has been in business for a total of 4 years, and has been growing since inception.

Straight off, we have had one downtime last Nov, due to NAC accidentally dropping our 64 IP block. However have enjoyed 100% uptime since that time.

We have rebuilt a lot of our services, preparing for a new and massive re-launch.

All of our packages include Fantastico, and inside CPanel, you'll find that we offer both Webalizer and Awstats.

We can also assist you in moving both of the sites for you.

If you're interested in AvidNewMedia as a sponsor, simply let me know, and we can go from there.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

That is awesome, Mark, thank you for your generous offer.
We are in no rush, so we'll be picking a provider in about a week.
Thanks again everyone.

Excellent Host would be more than honored to sponsor your websites. We can provide everything you need free of charge from moving the website for you to also throwing in fantastico.
Our servers are located at the SAVVIS datacenter so they are both fast and reliable we also offer a 99.9% SLA. Our tech support staff is very helpful and will always be around to help even though you would not be a paying customer.

Feel free to contact me at sales@excellenthost.com

Thank You