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I once thought I'd start my own online business, but first I needed to do some website development. I had already bought a brand new server for the video site I was planning to put up to attract people to the site, but I still needed to check everything over.

Website development had to be in two stages. First, I needed some cyberspace for the site index files and second, I was hoping to put up a buying on-line sub-site, so I could earn from there. Well at first I thought I had managed with it, but then the main page did not want to load properly. I searched for the error for hours when I finally found, that I hadn't put some of the files up. Ah how stupid of me!

This thing cleared I ran some tests and linked some of the videos from the server onto the page and everything seemed running smoothly. But then something totally unexpected happened - server crashed and all the data was wiped from the HDD. It seemed that the power supply had somehow overheated and all the server inner equipment was fried. Took it to repair, but it was so damaged that they had to give me a new one.

So after two drawbacks I still had to do the website development, but first I needed to get the files back to the server. Fortunately I had a backup copy of the files in my notebook. When I finally got everything as it was before, I ran into a tiny problem - some of the videos where not showing in the right aspect ratio and I had to convert them to another format, that required more time. But time was something I didn't have much at the moment so I put the computer to convert the videos and went to sleep.

Next morning the videos had finished converting and after linking those to the website I got them working properly. Finally some progress! Now I could continue to set up the buying on-line sub-site that I thought would be a great success and bring me some good money.

After getting some traffic to the site through Google I finally received first sales. Seemed like people where really into my cyberspace when more and more of them visited my web page. I already made half of the servers price back in one day, so it looked like a dream come true.

But when checked at some of the comments visitors where leaving one said: "I can't see no website development, make it better!". Well maybe I shouldn't really had made the page in one day, but now at least I had some motivation to continue.