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Stop offering me hosting

August 30, 2007 |

I’m downright insulted when people offer me hosting. What can your host possibly offer that I don’t already have? Unmetered bandwidth, unlimited domain hosting, unlimited email address, subdomains, mySQL databases, ect.
Realistically theres only so far that a hosting company can push it. Don’t get me wrong. I like being able to host as many domains as I want. Its also nice knowing my bandwidth will never run out. But you might as well all stop offering me hosting because I get all that and more already.

I like that they hand out free text and pay-per-click advertising to each and every customer.The search engine submission is nice too. Its really great to have a host that will back you and help get your site started.

Support is also very important. We all like to think we are web professionals but everybody gets a case of the stupids every now and then. The support at my web host have seen me through many such cases and even helped me out with some issues that would baffle any pro.

People try to dazzle you with all these stats and extras. But the fat is, every hosting company with a decent arsenal of servers has the resource to offer that same thing. It is other stuff that makes my host outweigh the average Joe server-in-my-apartment Jr.

You can’t top a business that gives you free stuff, helps you out when the product isn’t working. Not to mention has one of the highest affiliate payouts of any web hosting company.

So who the frig do you host with?

I joined Midphase two years ago and never looked back.

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