[ic] Secure server FAQs [monthly posting]

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Robert Brandtjen)]

On Wednesday 13 March 2002 11:49 pm, maillist wrote:
> Why should web hosting only cost $150/year? Because the competition is
> high.

while this may or may not be a factor in the tech business (webhosting), in 
other businesses, when a company is lettting it's product/inventory (boxes 
acting in a server capacity are inventory) go at bargain basement prices, it 
usually means they are headed for bankruptcy - all things cost money, from 
tech people to bandwidth to boxes, etc. there is no free lunch, none.

While they may be charging 10/month now, will they be here a year from now? 
it's doubtful, highly. There was a story in the WSJ some months back 
explaining why the big back bone companies were hurting -

they were hurting, apparently, because they had offered free service for 
between 1 and 2 years to large dot coms (no known as dot bombs) on multi year 
contracts - in turn these dot coms turned around and offered free or nearly 
free hosting services to their customers to garner clients - who refused to 
pay and went else where when the now dot bombs had to start charging because 
the free ride was over - when they could generate no cash flow to pay bills, 
they had to shut down and thus the back bone suppliers were stiffed. I wonder 
how many sites went down with them????

Lesson - it pays to spend money in prudent areas, one is your provider, the 
other is who ever is providing your security for your store.
-- 
 Robert Brandtjen
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