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To: FR1 who wrote (2609)	7/31/1998 1:16:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

ATHM isn't the only provider offering web hosting. The others would contend their service is superior to that of ATHM. The truth is they are all about the same. It isn't possible to give a realistic assessment about comparative quality of downtime service. We weren't talking about comparing servers, we were talking about site hosting. The minimum hookup mirror is free, but you should check ATHM's mirror policy when we are talking about the scale-up services. You'll find they charge, but they don't mention it. When the next big quake hits, your site will be down and so will ATHM's. It never ceases to amaze how this reasoning about proven security can be endlessly extrapolated. You pay for what can't be delivered. Please tell me how the priority of computers exceeds the priority of electrical power. When the grid goes, no one will care about some computer site. This reminds me of the gold bug brainlessness about a collapsed world wide financial system causing the price of gold to explode to priceless. The problem is priceless means non-fungible: someone may give you a pot of beans for your gold coin if you beg. You have a remarkably pedestrian attitude towards commerce. That attitude is typified by making dire necessity the marginal sale. Penny wise, pound foolish. In the attempt to emphasize the last sale, you create an environment where you lose others. You never need the one you think is so critical, because you might get it and find it turns into a can of worms that bite. You can't survive in business with that attitude. You have to throw some fish back in or suffer the consequences of eating yourself to heartburn. Putting together a site is getting easier, but 95% of business of any size won't do it in-house. It is so easy to say it's easy, but that isn't the objective truth. I've written many sites in J++, Frontpage, Drumbeat, xTML, and it's easy but very time consuming. If I didn't know all those little things I've accumulated about how the machine and its languages work over the last 20 years, I wouldn't have a clue about how to proceed. I've seen beginners attempt to put together a site. You can see the results of experienced teams of site builders all over the net. To see one of these finely crafted showpieces, check out Bank of America's site. Pure unusable junk. "There is a tremendous difference between ISPs in their ability to hold bandwidth, keep their sites running smooth and provide good tech support." What sort of drivel is this? There does not exist and there can't exist an objective procedure by which you can conclude this. They all will claim they have good tech support. Say you set up sites on 20 major services. Most share backbones and are hostage to exogenous forces out of their control. While you're trying to even define an objective measure, the variability of inputs makes comparison impossible even though you have a row of 20 PCs along which you walk to evaluate local testing states as well as remote hosting. There have been attempts to make just these assessments. The conclusions depend on who is doing the testing and always the results are so similar that it is difficult to say it's a difference that makes a difference. You're -5 for 5 because you didn't understand the context of my replies which you defined and then you made responses expressing a need to grind some ax much like the enraged reaction when I suggested that you use ATHM's @Work hosting and use copper ISP to access the host. Right now you have to do that, but if you have @Work host, you will still need @Home, if you're operating out-of-house because @Home would be used for non-business purposes.