Water Seven

Guidelines Before You Apply
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1. What is Water Seven?

• A Fine Spot Networks free web space host server.

Water Seven is a Fine Spot Network's free, stable and very reliable web space host server being shared and maintained by its users (webmasters, designers, programmers, beta testers, freelance translators, engineers, medical doctors, etc.) community since March 2006.

• A generous and honest free web space hosting service community.

Water Seven is a generous and honest community with main functions such as offering superb free web hosting service and support to its community members, free websites and software beta testing, free translation services (of webpages, software documents, business letters, technical manuals, etc.) from and to English, Japanese, Spanish, Filipino (Tagalog), Norwegian, Slovenian, etc,.


2. Why Choose Water Seven?

• Server reliability

Water Seven server has been designed and built with server stability as its highest priority. Water Seven continues to operate with 99.97% uptime since March 2007.

• Free Web Space Hosting Package

Water Seven provides four packages, the "Water Seven Member", "Water Seven Experience", "Water Seven Admin" and the "Water Seven Educational" packages, with lots of useful functionalities.

• Free as in freedom

You are free to use the Water Seven server without having to worry about advertisements banners being forced on your free webspace hosting account. We do not place any advertisements on your account. However, we do not encourage you to place any form of advertisements in your free hosted accounts as well. Also, we do not encourage free hosted members to use their accounts for commercial purposes. If you are going to put any form of advertisements in your free account, or if you would like to use your account for commercial purposes, please consider purchasing our VIP Account subscription which will only cost you $7.77 USD in one year. If you don't have that amount of money, then you have to maintain at least 7 quality posts every month in our community forums.

• Special Privilege for Trusted Members

No email account is given to new users. Members who have stayed with us and have participated in our community sufficiently enough to gain our loyalty and trust are promoted to Global Moderators, and then to System Administrators inside the community forums. Only those members whom we completely trusts - the System Administrators - have the privilege to avail our unlimited email account features. We therefore encourage new users to take the advantage of using third party email applications while they are not yet being promoted to these levels.

• Service, service, service

You will always have a community of generous people at your service.


3. How does Water Seven Achieve Success?

• Keeping the cycle of kindness moving

Water Seven carefully select members and users who are always willing to make good use of its server and share the same spirit of kindess in return.

• Building a robust and healthy server

Water Seven free web space hosting accounts are being reviewed regularly to detect and remove unused accounts and abusive users. Water Seven also conducts "Account Inventory" on a monthly basis. In this account inventory, members are requested to declare the current status and details of their webhosting account. Account Inventory does not only help us to detect and destroy accounts that are abusive. This also helps us to have a firm grasp of the usage of our server resources, thus making us able to predict possible troubles that we might encounter in the future and then make us able to adopt preventive measures to avoid them.

The Water Seven server itself is always being kept in high specifications to become powerful enough even if we are not able to use its whole capacity in a day to day use. Water Seven is purchasing servers from the most respected and reputable companies in the webhosting industry. Water Seven free web space host server stability and reliability keeps on improving each day as a result of its dedication to perpetual evolution.

• Reflecting user feedback and suggestions

Water Seven values the feedbacks and suggestions of its members who are the direct users of its services.

• Building trustworthy community with loyalty

Water Seven cultivates the spirit of loyalty within its members, always dedicating an honest and trustworthy service and relationship with each others.

• Evolving in a fast perpetual fashion

Water Seven continues on exerting efforts to make its server and community become even better. You can always expect to see us improving everyday, like a wine tasting even sweeter each day.


4. Is Water Seven for Me?

• Willingness to share

Water Seven is a shared free web space host server. Members do not only share the physical aspects of its service, but also share the same principles regarding its design, operation and maintenance. If you are willing to take part and agree to the principles (including rules and regulations) with which its server and community were built, then perhaps Water Seven is for you.

• Spirit of service

Without the spirit of service, Water Seven Community and its server will be dead. Therefore, Water Seven needs members who have the spirit of service. Members who are always willing to contribute in keeping the community alive and active. Members who are always willing to contribute in maintaining the quality of its free web space hosting service.

• Bondage of friendship

Water Seven community prefers offering its services to friends rather than strangers. If you are willing to accept the community members as your friends, trust them and share discussions with them just like your very own friend, then Water Seven is for you.

• Respectfulness and politeness to others

Water Seven offers free web hosting services to every one but not to the rude. If you are not feeling any gratefulness for your free web space hosting acount, then Water Seven is not for you. The same is true if you can not respect its rules and regulations. Being grateful of the free web space hosting service and support, is being respectful and polite to the community members.

• Eagerness to learn

Water Seven continues to develop and improve each day, because learning is a continuous process and we always strive to become even better. If you are not tolerable to changes, then Water Seven is not for you.

• Honest and loyal to the community

"Water Seven have its community's loyalty and honesty as one of the main foundation of its reliable free web space hosting service. If you can not become a loyal member of the community, then Water Seven is not for you.


5. What can I Expect from Water Seven?

• Free and reliable server

Water Seven is a free and reliable webhosting server you can trust. It has been designed to become one, and will always be maintained as one.
 

• Hosting quality superior than even a paid hosting account

Water Seven carefully selects its members. This will ensure that only responsible people can have an access and the authority to utilize our resources.

Even if you have the money to pay for a web hosting account in some reputable paid webhosts around, most likely than not, your account will be hosted in a server where you share with their other clients accounts. Just like not all paid webhosts have good and reliable service, not all users who can afford to pay for their web hosting account are good users at all. Some of them are irresponsible or maybe resource hogs, enough to cause the server you share with them to load very slow and even cause intermittent downtimes, which will surely affect and irritate you later on.

If you are using a paid hosting account, you will never have an idea whom are you sharing along with your account. But in Water Seven Community, you will always have a good understanding about the great and loving people in your neighborhood.

• Fast and friendly support

Water Seven is also a friendly community composed of members who are always willing to help and learn. The community is there to give you fast replies and friendly advice regarding any problems you may encounter in your free web space hosting account.

• Unique and improved community service

Water Seven is a community built out of generousity, honesty and friendship. Which may enable you to share a precious experience beyond the concept of free webspace hosting alone. It's nice to have a friend and be connected with them from the other side of the globe.


6. What will Water Seven Expect from Me?

• Follow the community rules

Water Seven members are expected to follow the community rules and regulations. These rules and regulations are part of the main reasons why Water Seven remains free, stable, reliable and of good quality.

• Active sharing and constant participation

Water Seven members are expected to constantly participate in the community discussions and activities to maintain the liveliness of the community itself and to regularly monitor the performance of the server. This does not mean, however, that your free hosting account will be terminated if you did not make any post in our community forums.

Every one in our community have no obligation to make a post in exchange for the free web hosting service that they receive. The Water Seven Community will not terminate its members account for not making a post. Members do not have to make a post in order to continue to use their free web hosting services.

There are technicalities on this, however. For instance, we are requiring members to post a reply to important community announcements for us to make sure that everyone of our members are aware of what is going on with the community and what is the current status of the server. It is also an obligation of every members to login regularly to our community forums to check for new announcements. Members who are not able to login to the forum for a period of more than one month are terminated from the forum, and their hosting account are terminated after another month of no response from the said members.

Another thing is that we require our beloved members to post an introduction about themselves. We are a community, although we respect everyone's own preferences, we do want to at least know whom we are giving our free web hosting service.

• Teamwork and cooperation

Water Seven members are expected to cooperate in the community activities and to express teamwork and cooperation among other members.

7. Where Should I Start?

• 7.1. Become a forum member

First you have to register for a forum account inside the community. Please make sure that the information you provide in your forum account is true and correct. Also, please be informed that our registration process may be complex and not user friendly. (Those are designed to deflect the entrance of runners and sentinels machines.) Should you find difficulties in the registration process, please send a message to finetraders@gmail.com and ask for some hints.

After you have successfully registered inside the community, please read and follow the instruction stated in this thread in order to claim your "Oh, so you're not a Robot!" award. This is a small appreciation for your patience and strong intention to become one of our community forum members.

• 7.2. Read and follow the rules of the community forums

Please read and follow the community forum rules. These rules serve as the guidelines in order to keep orderliness and neatness in forum discussions. Failure to abide to these rules may result to a forum ban.

• 7.3. Browse the boards and grasp the community atmosphere

Water Seven community has an atmosphere that is unique to the community. Before you make your first post, make sure that you have lurked enough and can understand that what you are posting and how you post it is appropriate to the community discussions and atmosphere.

• 7.4. Participate in the forum discussions to increase chances of approval

Water Seven prefers offering free services to friends rather than to strangers. It will be helpful for us in getting to know you better if you will participate actively in the forum discussions even before you make your application.

• 7.5. Read the Water Seven Web Hosting Policy and Strategic Plan

Please read the Water Seven Web Hosting Policy and the Water Seven Philosophy.

• 7.6. Read the roles and duties of community members

Please read the roles and duties of community members.

• 7.7. Create your web hosting account application

Please follow the correct procedures in creating and submitting your application.