Apr 28
The Hosting Industry
We can’t stress this enough when it comes to the hosting industry: you get what you pay for. Here’s an overview that explains why a poor choice can haunt you.
Web hosting companies sprung up overnight, each offering more features, making crazy promises, and slashing prices insanely. Most of these were basement operations with horrifically flawed business plans (or more realistically, no business plans), but there were of course legitimate companies as well. Unfortunately anyone with an extra $68 lying around could purchase a graphically impressive website template too, so it became difficult for the customer to distinguish professionals from amateurs.