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Re: People who purchase unproven technologies to support their Business, and whine about it. RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS
From: Clayton Fiske <clay () bloomcounty org>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 12:16:09 -0700
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:18:30AM -0400, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote:
How many medium sized businesses (lets say under 50 or 100 people) do you know that are willing to or can afford colocation. Many of these companies have only one server on prem. For customers such as this, they not only need a way to host a small webpage (receiving a hit a day if they are lucky) but also need internet access. It is customers like this for whom DSL is appropriate. I should have been more clear on the case of the company needing internet access. The problem with going with some of these fly buy night hosting operations is that some are using DSL themselves!
Fair enough. But the bottom line is this: If you're paying for the cheapest connectivity that suits your basic needs, you're going to get the cheapest. Expecting it to be as good as the more expensive solutions is unrealistic.
I don't know much about the colocation market in the US. But I do know that it is difficult to find a reasonable colocation facility here in Canada for under $500-1000 a month (I may be wrong here, I have not looked at colocation pricing in a while).
Well, it's a trade-off. If your website represents a significant revenue source for your company, you can justify spending the money to put it somewhere reliable. If you're only getting a couple of hits a day, it probably doesn't matter all -that- much if you do lose your connectivity for even several days. -c
Current thread:
- Re: People who purchase unproven technologies...DSL, (continued)
- Re: People who purchase unproven technologies...DSL Wojtek Zlobicki (May 14)
- Re: People who purchase unproven technologies...DSL Alex Rubenstein (May 14)
- Re: People who purchase unproven technologies...DSL Dan Hollis (May 14)
- Re: People who purchase unproven technologies to support their Business, and whine about it. RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Wojtek Zlobicki (May 14)
- RE: People who purchase unproven technologies to support their Business, and whine about it. RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Joe Marr (May 14)
- Re: People who purchase unproven technologies to support their Business, and whine about it. RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS John Payne (May 14)
- Re: People who purchase unproven technologies to support their Business, and whine about it. RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Adam McKenna (May 14)
- Re: People who purchase unproven technologies to support their Business, and whine about it. RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND bmanning (May 14)
- Re: People who purchase unproven technologies to support their Business, and whine about it. RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Shawn McMahon (May 14)
- Re: People who purchase unproven technologies to support their Business, and whine about it. RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Wojtek Zlobicki (May 15)
- Re: People who purchase unproven technologies to support their Business, and whine about it. RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Clayton Fiske (May 17)
- Re: People who purchase unproven technologies to support their Business, and whine about it. RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Dan Hollis (May 14)
- Dont Knock The Technology, was Re: People who purchase unproven technologies to support theirBusiness, and whine about it. John Palmer (NANOG Acct) (May 14)
- RE: Dont Knock The Technology, was Re: People who purchase unproven technologies to support theirBusiness, and whine about it. Daniel Golding (May 14)
- RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Joe Marr (May 13)
- RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Dan Hollis (May 13)
- RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Andy Dills (May 15)
- Re: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS Mike Leber (May 13)