Re: FN-FORUM: hosting for the UK?

date posted 25th January 2008 13:05

Dom Latter wrote:
> On Monday 21 January 2008 17:34:47 Dom Latter wrote:
>> On Sunday 20 January 2008 13:44:04 Nathan Vingoe wrote:
>>> As a few of us on list do, I run a hosting business.. I am UK based,
>>> the servers are UK based, in our own data centre, not resellers or
>> Really? To do a data centre properly you need backup generators,
>> at least two physically separate fibre connections to different networks,
>> and 24 hour security. Etc. This doesn't come cheap. If it hasn't got
>> the above you shouldn't call it a data centre, in my opinion.
>>
>> So, where's the data centre and what are the specs? Because your hosting
>> business website has no details.
>
> I'll take that as a "no" then, as in "there is no data centre".
>
> If anybody's wondering, if you can be bothered to do the requisite work
> with Google and other internet tools, you too will decide that Nathan's
> company having its own "data centre" is implausible.
>

Sorry Nathan,
I agree with Dom, I came late to this thread, I have looked at helpful
hosting, cleartech 0845s and support master

I am afraid that I would not touch any of these services with a barge pole.
I don't wish to be rude, but the sites are amateurish, incomplete, and
in some places broken.

This geezer is an old friend of mine
http://www.inweb.co.uk/ offering the same services on a professional
basis. I met him in 2000, when he was already well established this
business.
Nathan's sites look very much like a poor attempt to badge someone like
my friend's services.


So like Dom
I would like to take this opportunity to remind Nathan that basic
business sense would suggest that telling the truth to your customers is
a good idea. Finishing your website BEFORE trying to sell yourself to
the world, helps.

Also in this world there is always another on along in a minute so I am
sad to say that Nathan probably does have a customer base. However
trying to market this sort of rubbish on a this list is just going to
get him shot down in flames.



Carrie