It was their passion for blogging that first brought the two BCA students together. Ajith Jojo and Stanly Stephen are now the co-founders of an up-and-coming webhosting company.
Stanly of Mullikkattil house at Enathu is a BCA student at the KVVS Institute of Technology at Adoor, and Ajith of Kuthukallumkal house at Kattappana in Idukki is doing his BCA online at Sikkim Manipal University. The duo became friends on Facebook a year ago, and their friendship grew over the next few months.
His passion for cyberspace had led Stanly to launch a social network www.ganggiz.com three years ago. Ajith too started a social network www.openlax.com, making him popular among netizens in the State.
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Their regular chats on social media sowed the seeds of a bigger dream — floating a webhosting enterprise of their own. Their webhosting firm Server Orbits, aimed at enterprise hosting and small-scale business hosting, came into being on April 4 with home offices at Kattappana and Enathu.
“Providing business class hosting solutions to real businesses at an affordable price is our mission, and our efforts have started bearing fruit,” say Stanly and Ajith. “Our servers are customised to deliver greater performances with CloudFlare Control Delivery Network (CDN). We have got a perfect round-the-clock monitoring system,” say the duo.
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The Server Orbits has got 147 global clients, 57 of them abroad, over the past two months.
They are planning to register their start-up outside Kerala as the “rules in the State are not favourable for a new entrepreneur.”
“For registration, we have to spend a total of Rs.15,000 in Kerala. Of this, Rs.5,000 is for stamp duty alone. It take only half that amount in Tamil Nadu or Karnataka,” they say.
Interestingly, the duo met face-to-face only a month ago, and that too after floating their webhosting company.
Two BCA students who met online a year ago are now co-founders of a webhosting firm