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The hosting industry over the past few years has become wildly saturated with new competition. As far as any reasonable comparison goes, the industry has mutated into a web of intertwined agencies and organizations, corporations and sole-proprietors trying to take a bite out of the industry, and thus we are left with what we have today. This issue is not alarming in general, but the problem has been amplified by the easily accessible reseller packages and cheaper than dirt Celeron servers our high school students are picking up. So what are we to do now that we are confronted with this problem?
Most owners and employees would concede there is no problem; this is the fact of the industry, and basically a simple fact of our type of economic system. We strive on competition, and if competition drives the market, then we in turn should be thankful, no...we should be praising the heavens for so many great competitors. But upon further inspection, who does this competition really satisfy in the end? Is it the decent hosts, who own their own servers, deal with their clients day in and day out on a personal basis? No, it is the conglomerates of the industry that pick up our dirty pieces.
With every poor hosting contract there is borne a bitter customer! Our customer, everyone's customer, and we are all losing because of this. When a poor host, in general, attracts a customer and fails this customer, the entire bracket this host came from is frowned upon. Most of us in this forum are apart of this bracket; the bracket which lacks the 50,000/month advertising budget, and therefore are lumped together with these poor slums. When in fact upon further inspection we are not all the same, obviously, and we have much to contribute to the market, given the opportunity.
Basically what this amounts to, is the poor host, the high school students, the part-timers, the people trying to make an extra buck are hurting us all. All of their bitter clients are moving directly to the most visible of hosts, the hostgators, the network solutions, the godaddy's, all the while we decent hosts suffer the loss of some very good clients.
What does this mean, what do I suggest? In the end, there is very little that can be done about this, because the irony is, we sell these poor hosts the ability to be what they are. We sell them our reseller packages and our Celerons so we can make an extra buck off of their ill conceived notion that the web hosting industry is a walk in the park, and sometimes we do well doing this. But, we end up sacrificing deserving, long lasting clients, for these one-year wonders who want to start their own cool gaming server, or mom and pop web hosting businesses, etc.. But there is a very small thing that we can do. We can discourage them at every chance we get, discourage those who are obviously not cut out for this business. Those who say, how many sites can I have on my server, or how much money can I make from 10 clients, etc. Encouraging these sorts of hosts is only going to further breed the present problem, and eventually we will all suffer for this, and will be out of business.
Thanks for reading.
Thank you for checking out our post!
The hosting industry over the past few years has become wildly saturated with new competition. As far as any reasonable comparison goes, the industry has mutated into a web of intertwined agencies and organizations, corporations and sole-proprietors trying to take a bite out of the industry, and thus we are left with what we have today. This issue is not alarming in general, but the problem has been amplified by the easily accessible reseller packages and cheaper than dirt Celeron servers our high school students are picking up. So what are we to do now that we are confronted with this problem?
Most owners and employees would concede there is no problem; this is the fact of the industry, and basically a simple fact of our type of economic system. We strive on competition, and if competition drives the market, then we in turn should be thankful, no...we should be praising the heavens for so many great competitors. But upon further inspection, who does this competition really satisfy in the end? Is it the decent hosts, who own their own servers, deal with their clients day in and day out on a personal basis? No, it is the conglomerates of the industry that pick up our dirty pieces.
With every poor hosting contract there is borne a bitter customer! Our customer, everyone's customer, and we are all losing because of this. When a poor host, in general, attracts a customer and fails this customer, the entire bracket this host came from is frowned upon. Most of us in this forum are apart of this bracket; the bracket which lacks the 50,000/month advertising budget, and therefore are lumped together with these poor slums. When in fact upon further inspection we are not all the same, obviously, and we have much to contribute to the market, given the opportunity.
Basically what this amounts to, is the poor host, the high school students, the part-timers, the people trying to make an extra buck are hurting us all. All of their bitter clients are moving directly to the most visible of hosts, the hostgators, the network solutions, the godaddy's, all the while we decent hosts suffer the loss of some very good clients.
What does this mean, what do I suggest? In the end, there is very little that can be done about this, because the irony is, we sell these poor hosts the ability to be what they are. We sell them our reseller packages and our Celerons so we can make an extra buck off of their ill conceived notion that the web hosting industry is a walk in the park, and sometimes we do well doing this. But, we end up sacrificing deserving, long lasting clients, for these one-year wonders who want to start their own cool gaming server, or mom and pop web hosting businesses, etc.. But there is a very small thing that we can do. We can discourage them at every chance we get, discourage those who are obviously not cut out for this business. Those who say, how many sites can I have on my server, or how much money can I make from 10 clients, etc. Encouraging these sorts of hosts is only going to further breed the present problem, and eventually we will all suffer for this, and will be out of business.
Thanks for reading.
