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Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. (AKA PSPINC)
1404 140th PL NE, Bellevue, WA 98007, USA
425-957-0808 or 800-232-3989
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Last Newsletter of 2022
Thank you for reading my newsletter this year. Today, I'd like to summarize what the year 2022 was like for me.
First of all, I would like to say that this year was a year of surgeries and recoveries. On February 25, the doctors found a foreign object in my liver, so I had surgery to remove it. Because of Covid-19, they sent me to the hospital and I went straight to the surgery alone, where I went to the operating room after preparations. I remember up until I entered the operating room, but the next time I woke up, I think I was in the ICU. The nurse told me it was a "big surgery", and for the first time I found out I'd been in surgery for five hours. From there, I stayed in the hospital and could barely eat. Also, after the surgery, my uric acid levels rose and my knees began to hurt. So I had to undergo dialysis at the hospital. After getting discharged, my knee pain continued and I ended up being re-hospitalized by ambulance. It was gout.
After the second discharge from the hospital, I was still unable to eat, but my weight didn't drop because of the water in my stomach. I had three procedures to drain this water, draining five liters of water at a time. It took more than two months for this all to occur, and, of course, my weight dropped 15 kg since before the surgery. It was only after all the water was drained that my appetite returned. I set a goal to walk a mile (about 2,200 steps) every day. By May I could go back to work for a few days a week.
It was wonderful to see how smoothly the company operated while I was gone. And I am thankful of everyone. From there, I could participate in the Seattle Executives Association little by little. I really appreciated everyone's concern. In the end, they told me that the foreign object in my liver was a tumor the size of a tennis ball, and that it was cancerous. But since they removed it all, there isn't any cancer treatment now that I've gotten the surgery. The only thing I'm afraid of is recurrence.
Oddly enough, my father died of cancer at the age of 60. Is it genetic? I don't like inheriting strange things. But this time I survived. But this was the first time in my life where I really felt there was an end. I can now work at my company and while it may seem uneventful, it's what makes me happy. I was actually going to write about my work, but this year I thought more seriously about my health. Or rather, I thought about my survival.
I hope to be healthy again in 2023. I pray that you'll all be healthy next year, too. I would like to be a little healthier too.
Kenichi Uchikura
President / CEO
Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
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Storm last night caused branches to drop down.
We move all big beaches to the side of the parking lot.
One of the weakness of so many tall trees are the fact they can fall down.
At least this time, we had no power outage.
Kenichi Uchikura
President / CEO
Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
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I am replacing big hard disk drive to this for backup.
Kenichi Uchikura
President / CEO
Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
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All the snow has been melted or washed away by the rain.
It is wet but warmer and safer ... Have a ver Merry Christmas.
Kenichi Uchikura
President / CEO
Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
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It is freezing cold and roads and sidewalks are very slippery. Some people cannot make their car out of garbage. Be warm and be safe.
Kenichi Uchikura
President / CEO
Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
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Kenichi Uchikura
President / CEO
Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
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Kenichi Uchikura
President / CEO
Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
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December 2022 Special PSPINC's Internet Business Beginnings: Part 3
In my previous newsletter, I talked about how we started our hosting service in 1996 by building a T1 line and DNS, Web, and Mail servers. In 1997, we offered our services at the following prices:
• Web Site Hosting(10 MB max) .... $75.00 / Month
- additional 10MB to 100MB .... $7.50 / per 1MB / Month
- additional 100MB or More ... $4.00 /per 1MB / Month
• Web Server Hosting (Space Restricted by Server Hardware Only) .... Call
If you wish to have your own domain name, we can help you register with InterNIC or transfer an existing domain to our server. Remember, we allocate only 16 domains (IPs) per server to avoid traffic related slow downs.
• Domain Name Search .... Always Free
• Domain Name Registration and Server IP Setup .... $499.00
• Domain Name Transfer and Server IP Setup .... $399.00
Options to Customize Your Web Page
• HTML Based Online Order Receiving .... Add $50.00 / Month
• SSL Secure Online Transaction Support .... Add $50.00 / Month
• BBS Area (so people can post messages) .... Add $20.00 / Month
• Chat Area (for online discussions) .... Add $20.00 / Month
Email (Your Own Email Account)
• Email Account Setup Charge .... $10.00 / Account
• Monthly Account Use Fee .... $5.00 / Month
Bilingual Web Page Development
• Web page development (in English or Japanese) .... $45.00 / Hour
• Web page translation (both E-J and J-E) .... $0.25 - 0.45 / word
Web Page Marketing
• English Search Engine postings.... $49.00
• Japanese Search Engine postings.... $99.00
• Linking service (if applicable) .... $45.00/hr
Web Page Development Resources
• Check It Out .... FREE
Compared to now, the price might surprise you. But back then, if you wanted to do your own hosting, you needed to invest tens of thousands of dollars for lines and servers. Remember, the price of a T1 line used to be $6,000/month. So, while it may seem expensive here, the price was unbeatable to run a business with a web presence at the time.
Many of our customers had their Web sites under the MOSHIx2.net subdomain. But, "Mitsui & Co. (USA), Inc.", "Tully's Coffee", "Computer News", "Takarajimasha", "Sumitomo Electric", "Discount Golf Superstore" used PSPINC's hosting under their own domains. Of course, we either created the homepages for them or helped them do so.
At the time, web & email hosting services were very rare, and we also had the advantage of speaking both English and Japanese. So, many companies contacted us to ask about our services and got offers. This was in 1997. Of course, at this point, we were still battling unstable web and mail servers. So, we'd go to the office late at night to reboot the servers regularly. We didn't have a 24-hour operation, but, in the end, it was the manager or one of the staff members and I who stayed up all night every day. Of course, it also wasn't uncommon to get called in at three o'clock in the morning.
From there, we started developing our own server software and server monitoring tools to ensure a stable operation. And this continues to this day, a quarter of a century later. Anyway, I hope you can understand that PSPINC's hosting business, which started when there were no tools like today, wasn't operated by external software. Instead, it proceeded along its own unique path. We hope you enjoyed these three newsletters of PSPINC's internet business beginnings. PSPINC will continue to strive, not only as a hosting company, but also as a technology development company that supports the hosting business. Many of the technologies we developed here can also be used to make your site and business processes run more efficiently. If you are considering DX, please let us know. And we would be very happy if you continued supporting our company.
Kenichi Uchikura
President / CEO
Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
ken.uchikura＠pspinc.com
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