Ahh…Sunday morning, it’s my favorite part of the week. We all just hang out in bed, playing with the kids, and using the laptop. Hopefully, this week will go smoothly, finish up a project or two, and we are adding someone to the AWD team. This will be our first time really adding a full time (or close to full time person). They are coming on as a contractor at first, and we’ll see how things go from there.
In running my business I frequently have people say to me “but, XXX hosting company offers 100x more than you do, at only a $1.99, why should I choose you”. The answer is quite frankly, that we provide a better service. We don’t pack too many sites on the server, where it can’t handle the load, and the server goes down (for the record ALL our shared hosting servers load is less that 0.9). Plus, we have qualified people to keep the running, patched with the latests and greatest (sable versions). AND we have smart people ready and able to answer questions ranging from “how do I configure my email account” to “why doesn’t this script work”. In some cases you really do get what you pay for. If you just don’t care if your site goes down for a little bit here and there, or that the support is a little “under par”, then these “cheap” places are for you. But, if you want to have a server (and company) with a good uptime, and want to be able to talk to someone knowledgeable, this consider paying a little more.
To illustrate my point, Andy Owen, has written a wonderful artice about his experence with Go-Daddy, please click Read More to see his article.
Note: I normally just link to stories, but I wanted to copy this one, so I would always have it. The original article is here.