Comments on: You’re Hosted By…Who? http://blog.servint.net/2009/07/10/youre-hosted-by-who/ Insights on Hosting, Technology, and Green Technology Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:33:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Reed Caldwell http://blog.servint.net/2009/07/10/youre-hosted-by-who/comment-page-1/#comment-915 Reed Caldwell Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:44:39 +0000 http://blog.servint.net/?p=454#comment-915 Michael, You are absolutely right, there are many fantastic companies that are very small. The point of the post, however, is to reinforce that not all companies are created equal, and that you should be sure to know who you are choosing to do business with. I understand very well that nothing about being small makes you bad, just like nothing about being big makes you good. Good companies are good, bad companies are bad, and sometimes it is hard to tell the difference. Michael,

You are absolutely right, there are many fantastic companies that are very small. The point of the post, however, is to reinforce that not all companies are created equal, and that you should be sure to know who you are choosing to do business with. I understand very well that nothing about being small makes you bad, just like nothing about being big makes you good. Good companies are good, bad companies are bad, and sometimes it is hard to tell the difference.

]]> By: Michael http://blog.servint.net/2009/07/10/youre-hosted-by-who/comment-page-1/#comment-914 Michael Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:05:11 +0000 http://blog.servint.net/?p=454#comment-914 I have serious issues with your post. You assume that web hosting companies that aren't huge, old-time industry players are run by incompetent buffoons who have no idea what they are doing. I know plenty of webmasters who are absolutely satisfied by their small web hosting company, and I know plenty of people who have had horrible experiences with large, corporate companies like ServInt, HostGator, and Burst.Net. In fact, HostGator, the largest web hosting company in terms of sheer websites hosted, started as one of those "fly-by-night" operations. The same thing happened with LiquidWeb, Matthew Hill started the company as a "fly-by-night" hosting operation, and LiquidWeb has grown to a massive company with three wholly owned datacenters. You simply have to start somewhere. Don't think you're better because you're bigger and older. I know a lot of start up companies that could crush your prices, service, and reliability. I have serious issues with your post. You assume that web hosting companies that aren’t huge, old-time industry players are run by incompetent buffoons who have no idea what they are doing. I know plenty of webmasters who are absolutely satisfied by their small web hosting company, and I know plenty of people who have had horrible experiences with large, corporate companies like ServInt, HostGator, and Burst.Net. In fact, HostGator, the largest web hosting company in terms of sheer websites hosted, started as one of those “fly-by-night” operations. The same thing happened with LiquidWeb, Matthew Hill started the company as a “fly-by-night” hosting operation, and LiquidWeb has grown to a massive company with three wholly owned datacenters. You simply have to start somewhere.

Don’t think you’re better because you’re bigger and older. I know a lot of start up companies that could crush your prices, service, and reliability.

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