CaribooMedia
08-18-2003, 10:14 PM
Today is a sad day in the webhosting industry. When people like this this (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=176612) expect to get so much for next to nothing.
Now I have crawled this board for quite some time now, so I understand that it is filled with minions requesting free hosting and gnomes who request 5000gigs of transfer for $3. This is what I have come to expect, and whatever, let the kids have there dreams.
What really bothers me is when I see respectable web hosts compeating with some kid who used his moms CC to buy a ded server. What I suggest is people who are trying to run a reputable buisness, ignore the posts asking for $3.95/month hosting. There is no possible way you can pay a support staff what they are worth if you are barely paying for your own bandwidth.
Let the no support/unreliable hosts oversell there servers and lose clients so that you can get back to buisness. You see, it gets scary for the rest of the hosting industry when the USA based buisness have to under sell themselves so far. Take a look at the majority of established buisnesses and telcos; they still charge a base $30 and up for a small hosting package. My local hosting company charges $31.95cdn for 10mb/1gig transfer with no db access or control panel and limited scripting.
My Point... being one of the most travelled hosting fourms in the industry, if not the most, it is being saturated with cheap hosts as well as first time customers expecting to get a quality service for less than the cost of the bandwidth itself. From this we get unsatisfeid customers who come to us with horror stories we here time and time again. It is no good for any of us when customer confidence drops, and that is exactly what seems to be happening. I am worried that we will soon see alot of companys lose there shirts. You need to start thinking about service as well as your cost/profit ratio.
The one thing I am glad to see is still here is the community spirit as well as the willingness to help one another out!
Now I have crawled this board for quite some time now, so I understand that it is filled with minions requesting free hosting and gnomes who request 5000gigs of transfer for $3. This is what I have come to expect, and whatever, let the kids have there dreams.
What really bothers me is when I see respectable web hosts compeating with some kid who used his moms CC to buy a ded server. What I suggest is people who are trying to run a reputable buisness, ignore the posts asking for $3.95/month hosting. There is no possible way you can pay a support staff what they are worth if you are barely paying for your own bandwidth.
Let the no support/unreliable hosts oversell there servers and lose clients so that you can get back to buisness. You see, it gets scary for the rest of the hosting industry when the USA based buisness have to under sell themselves so far. Take a look at the majority of established buisnesses and telcos; they still charge a base $30 and up for a small hosting package. My local hosting company charges $31.95cdn for 10mb/1gig transfer with no db access or control panel and limited scripting.
My Point... being one of the most travelled hosting fourms in the industry, if not the most, it is being saturated with cheap hosts as well as first time customers expecting to get a quality service for less than the cost of the bandwidth itself. From this we get unsatisfeid customers who come to us with horror stories we here time and time again. It is no good for any of us when customer confidence drops, and that is exactly what seems to be happening. I am worried that we will soon see alot of companys lose there shirts. You need to start thinking about service as well as your cost/profit ratio.
The one thing I am glad to see is still here is the community spirit as well as the willingness to help one another out!