Re: You get what you pay for...

Conrad Knauer wrote:
> There was an important primary election in Connecticut; the
> incumbent's website went down right before the election and they
> assumed they had been hacked by their foes and made a big stink about
> it... But that doesn't seem to be what happened:
>
> http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/8/8/153827/3493
>
> "I have the definitive answer as to why Lieberman's site went down.
> They are paying $15/month for hosting at a place called MyHostCamp,
> with a bandwidth limit of 10GB. MyHostCamp is currently down, along
> with all their clients. Here's the deal -- you get what you pay for.
> My hosting bill is now over $7K per month. A smaller site doesn't need
> that much bandwidth, but if you're paying $15 because your $12 million
> campaign is too freakin' cheap to pay for quality hosting, then don't
> go blaming your opponent when your shitty service goes out."
>
> Ooops! 8-)

I know this all to well being that I work for a web hosting company that
deals mainly with shared web hosting customers.

You wouldn't believe the clients that think for their $15 a month or
whatever it is that their site should be able to scale up to millions of
visitors a day :)

Jeff
Received on Wed Aug 9 17:08:29 2006