What is the hosting industry coming to!?

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Some of those requests / responses make my eyes water. What do some of you guys think of the current hosting industries standards (if any)?

yep, its a shame. Thing is though the uneducated users will go with the cheap hosts (and after 2-3 times of being screwed by the previous cheapie) they will become educated consumers and go with more expensive ones. Same as McDonalds, you don't go to McDonalds for a high class meal. You go to McDonalds for something cheap and quick.

Imagine going to McDonalds for a business meeting with another non-McDonalds company, that would be funny.

think I am joking? Heres a challenge for you.

Find one web hosting company with extremely low rates that has a good reputation to clients and to the web hosting industry. Most have been in business for over a year.

Good luck

I'll need it...

i totally agree with you- i have recently been expanding my buisiness into webhosting and domain names. i've lowered the prices as much as i can but i am still having sooooooooooooo much trouble getting any buisiness, because i cant offer it at $0.20/year or something k-e-r-a-z-y like that.

alot of people go straight for the cheapest deal without actually thinking of how much better they could acually get....

Yes, because most people out there look at the price before anything else.
Sometimes they just don't understand that the lower you pay in terms of dollars and cents the more you will have to pay in another way that could in the end cost you much much more....

The worse I have ever seen other than those "cheapo" hosting that go bust in a few months are those "crazy" free hosting "companies"....
My company is a free host but the packages those "crazy" people offer are so high end that I wonder how they hold on.... ( which many never survive the first few months. )

Most customers see "sub $100 dedicated servers" all over the place now, so they think, hell, if they the host is paying under $100 for the entire server and they get 1000GB of bandwidth and 120GB of hard drive space why should i pay more than 10c per GB of bandwidth and 80c per GB of disk space?

They do not think about hosts who actually use quality servers, quality network and actually provide SKILLED staff to answer their questions. Skilled staff costs money, as does real equipment.

Sure I could simply go buy a bunch of $400 Intel systems from Dell (or cheaper from a local pc store or build it myself etc) but in my opinion this is not a quality solution. A real rackmountable server with real cooling, RAID etc is going to cost you a pretty penny.

Frankly, clients who choose a host strictly based on price are not our target market and never will be, we'll pick up those clients once they understand quality costs slightly more which generally doesn't take too long

Anyway, I'm not going to rant anymore, there is dinner to make!

1x 700gb server on its on for me costs $300 a month....

at least there are some people around who appreciate the quality....

96% of my customers gave my company 10 out of 10...

4% gave it 9

since they voted they have left....

Its crazy really......

We also have very loyal customers that love to poke fun at other hosts offers...

For example, this is one I JUST saw in the hosting offers section, 150GB bandwidth and 3GB disk space for 3.99/month or something. I mean, seriously...the sad thing is people are jumping all over it. I'm sure they'll be back looking for another cheap host next month when they find out that last host wasn't "good". *sighs*

Well how long can they stand their site going up and down? seriously the difference is a few dollars every month but the reliability would mean more than that few miserable dollars.

on a personal note i could not get anywhere near those silly offers ..
why do it to upset customers and get a bad name in the process ?
think i'll stick to what i do now ..
yes i have only been going a little over a month but i will be here in 11 months time ...

like i said above, im having a lot of trouble getting any buisiness, and its all becasue of people not understanding that its near impossible to get cheap quality - if u kno what i mean.
the market for web hosting is getting saturated, by unreliable companies who amaze naive customers into believing theyre getting an unbelievable deal, leaving the reliable, real companies, who are offering real quality, losing out.
who here, who is offering quality web hosting can honestly say that they are getting a constant flow of buisiness, with completely loyal customers, realising when theyre onto a good thing - i know i cant.
and its all becasue of these chepa rubbish companies who make big offers for little money, which makes other companies who cant afford to, due to actually being reliable, look over priced.

i think they should have a hosting review on here.... get a site of each company out there... for a month... and just ask a few basic questions..... most hosts im sure wont mind doing it for free for a small site for a month....

That would soon also be abused. Notice all the newbies going around, after a minute with their new "unlimited" host, saying how the host is the best thing since sliced bread. It happens way to often. That also with hosts offering free accounts for fake testimonials and such.