Brady, U.S. Web is good, but not in the same class (dare I say "best in class"?) as Frontier GlobalCenter. GlobalCenter hosts Yahoo. (Do a tracert.) U.S. web does a good job of hosting a lot of smaller sites.
But, for the the company home page, they don't need an elaborate setup (multiple, geographically-dispersed servers with strategically-placed connections to the net) that GlobalCenter offers.
They don't need it for the adverserver, either, at their current volume.
If they were the ad network they used to be, I'd call this a step down. But, given the situation, I'd call it "right-sizing".
It's likely that what they have right now costs them no more than a couple hundred dollars a month (most likely less) and could have been paid with a credit card, avoiding a D&B check.
If/when they start serving any real ad volume, they would get into a much more expensive proposition. A "best in class" ad server should be better than, or at least as good as, every one of their client sites. Netscape, for example, wouldn't be happy if slow ads made their fast server look pokey. But, with only a few customers, the cost probably isn't justified. |
