North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical 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
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
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