OUR HOSTING PHILOSOPHY
Having been involved in the past with many low-budget hosting
companies thinking that it's all the same so why not get it cheaper,
we discovered (the hard way) that low prices don't always include
excellent service. In fact, poor response times, customer support,
and server issues were pretty much the norm.
After much research we determined the following issues to be the
culprits in why the cheap hosting companies have high turnover and a
larger percentage of dissatisfied customers.
- The practice of overselling their disk space
- This theory is simple. If you have 80 GIG hard drives you sell
320 GIGS in hopes that your customers will never use all the space
you sell them. This setup goes awry when everyone actually does
use the space allocated to them.
- The practice of offering HUGE bandwidth
- Offers of 100 GIGS of monthly bandwidth sure sounds tempting.
But unless your site is one of the top sites on the net you'll
never use it. Most sites use less than 1 GIG per month.
- File count limitations
- Sure, you have 1 GIG of disk space. BUT, they allow you just
25,000 total files. Do the math. Your files would have to be HUGE
to use all that space with that number of files
- Resource limitations
- Yes, they will limit the types of scripts you run and turn off
your site in the event that it is determined that you are using
more resources than allowable. This could be a shopping cart, a
photo gallery, a message board or other popular element
- Poor customer support
- I don't care how cheap the service is, customer support is
vital. Even for $5 per month a customer feels they deserve quick
responses to their questions and fast fixes for the technical
issues related to their server and web site.
- Special Requests
- So you have a script or program you'd like to run on your
account but it requires a special Perl or PHP module installed.
Good luck!
- Support for third party scripts
- Low-budget hosting companies are realistically targeting new
web site owners. Normally these are people who are not as
experienced in setting up CGI and PHP scripts and need assistance.
Most low-budget hosts refuse to offer support for any programs.
Our philosophy is simple. We communicate with our customers to
determine what their hosting needs will be. If they outgrow their
plan we can customize it to continue to meet those needs. We offer
quick responses to support requests, provide services for script
installations and web design.
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