How DO You Choose Your Programme or Opportunity?
Small hosting business – to be or not to be
by Maksym Nesen
Maksym Nesen 
Recently I was surfing the Internet comparing web
hosting providers. I found very nice site which is about and for
hosting companies. That is the WebHostingStuff web site. I spend
several hours to read about many hosting companies at many countries.
There is very nice bidding option at this site which brings several
sites to top. And my notice was – what to do to hosting companies which
are only beginners here? I always see big hosting companies on top of
the bidding auction and relatively small or new hosting providers are
invisible.
Some time ago I've started to pay attention to
small hosting companies. I did several comparison and the result was
very optimistic. Many small hosting companies offers same services,
security and reliability level as their big hosting competitors. And
almost any small company provides demo or free hosting plan for
customers to test hosting speed, reliability, and support.
Nowadays to survive in any business it is the must to provide services
and support at the high level. And this is valid for any hosting in the
world. That is why I am trying to buy hosting from not so popular and
advertised hosting companies. I am comparing services and reliability
and I definitely can say – small hosting business must be.
I have several arguments proving that:
1.Fast Internet backbones are available to any hosting provider
2.Server hardware gets more reliable, cheaper, and faster. It is fully affordable by small companies.
3.Support responses in many cases are faster than from big companies due to less overflow.
4.Network administration on small quantity of servers requires less efforts.
5.Demo or free accounts are available for test drive.
I have to underline here that small companies performs more activity to
get popular on the Internet. It is important to widespread good
advertising content all over the Internet using low budget. And hosting
entrepreneurs should be really tricky to gather relevant audience.
In addition I can add that reputation is the main factor here. Just
beginners will never gain profit until they are quite popular on the
web. Thus beginners and small companies differs. Beginners are those
who is just open and small companies are those who can provide at least
1000 results in Google search. If you found a hosting, let's say, but
Oksima Plus, and then you go to google for it, you will see huge
quantities of results which describes Oksima Plus' activity from many
aspects. And you can choose on your own to trust them or not.
Another important point when you are testing a hosting provider, you
should consider to contact their support. The response time is very
important here. When you are unsure what to choose – just drop an email
to support and you will see, how fast the response is.
Finally consider to read refund and money back policy. This is another
important thing to care of. This does not mean you should take any
refund from a hosting company, but you have to be sure all policies are
accurate enough to be trusted.
To conclude I wish you to
choose an appropriate hosting for sites and domains us own. And to have
your on-line services and stores up and running 24/7 all the way long.
Jul 31st 2008 12:08
Recently I was surfing the Internet comparing web
hosting providers. I found very nice site which is about and for
hosting companies. That is the WebHostingStuff web site. I spend
several hours to read about many hosting companies at many countries.
There is very nice bidding option at this site which brings several
sites to top. And my notice was – what to do to hosting companies which
are only beginners here? I always see big hosting companies on top of
the bidding auction and relatively small or new hosting providers are
invisible.
Some time ago I've started to pay attention to
small hosting companies. I did several comparison and the result was
very optimistic. Many small hosting companies offers same services,
security and reliability level as their big hosting competitors. And
almost any small company provides demo or free hosting plan for
customers to test hosting speed, reliability, and support.
Nowadays to survive in any business it is the must to provide services
and support at the high level. And this is valid for any hosting in the
world. That is why I am trying to buy hosting from not so popular and
advertised hosting companies. I am comparing services and reliability
and I definitely can say – small hosting business must be.
I have several arguments proving that:
1.Fast Internet backbones are available to any hosting provider
2.Server hardware gets more reliable, cheaper, and faster. It is fully affordable by small companies.
3.Support responses in many cases are faster than from big companies due to less overflow.
4.Network administration on small quantity of servers requires less efforts.
5.Demo or free accounts are available for test drive.
I have to underline here that small companies performs more activity to
get popular on the Internet. It is important to widespread good
advertising content all over the Internet using low budget. And hosting
entrepreneurs should be really tricky to gather relevant audience.
In addition I can add that reputation is the main factor here. Just
beginners will never gain profit until they are quite popular on the
web. Thus beginners and small companies differs. Beginners are those
who is just open and small companies are those who can provide at least
1000 results in Google search. If you found a hosting, let's say, but
Oksima Plus, and then you go to google for it, you will see huge
quantities of results which describes Oksima Plus' activity from many
aspects. And you can choose on your own to trust them or not.
Another important point when you are testing a hosting provider, you
should consider to contact their support. The response time is very
important here. When you are unsure what to choose – just drop an email
to support and you will see, how fast the response is.
Finally consider to read refund and money back policy. This is another
important thing to care of. This does not mean you should take any
refund from a hosting company, but you have to be sure all policies are
accurate enough to be trusted.
To conclude I wish you to
choose an appropriate hosting for sites and domains us own. And to have
your on-line services and stores up and running 24/7 all the way long.
Jul 31st 2008 12:08
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Maksym Nesen
Thanks for sharing your point ;) The aim of my post is to show that small hosting is not baf hosting, and for sure we do not want to be the next HostGator... The idea of hosting companies shoud be - one company is not able to host all internet. Each hosting company can attract clients. Independently from size/ So, in this field we are competitors, but we can provide hosting services for people from different countries and will never retract customers from each other... And quality first of all for sure! For any company and any business quality and respect to customers (and to all people in general) must be on the first place. Aug 1st 2008 08:12 |
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Cheryl Baumgartner
  Medical Billing/Coding/InsuranceI actually prefer working with the smaller companies across the board for whatever. They normally give good personal customer service. Larger companies don't have the time to do that and issues can remain unresolved which you work your way through the miles of red tape. Aug 1st 2008 09:27 |
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Cheryl Baumgartner
Medical Billing/Coding/InsuranceI actually prefer working with the smaller companies across the board for whatever. They normally give good personal customer service. Larger companies don't have the time to do that and issues can remain unresolved which you work your way through the miles of red tape. Aug 1st 2008 09:27 |
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Tom Show
 Very interesting reading. You've done good research and provided good quidance to those looking for hosting service. Tom Aug 1st 2008 09:46 |
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Bj aka Bill Brown
 Hosting and Backup Service providerHi Mavines I fully agree with you, although competiors in the strikt sence of the word, there is always room for smaller companies for clients that want that extra personal touch. Where the potential client also has to be carefull is doing their best to make sure they are not going to end up with a small independant that has has no clue what they are doiing and is relying solely on the support from the company they are working as a reseller for. Aug 1st 2008 10:07 |
Hi Marvine,
Good post however you missed one point.
That is word of mouth recommendation.
Our clientel is growing steadily through personal recommendation from existing clients far more than through advertising.
We are a small company and we do not want to be the next hostgator (mind you who would want to be them with the bad rep they have?) or any of the other big names.
We pride ourselves on personal contact with our clients.
More and more of our clients are becomming personal friends over time as we get to know each other better.
We are also not resellers we have our own servers.
Jul 31st 2008 16:12