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Yes, there are a lot of hosting services out there. And many are nothing more than impersonal server farms, offering the technological equivalent of hosting your site in a fast food restaurant. What makes our hosting different?
Three things we don't do...
- Oversell our bandwidth.
- Compress sites to maximize equipment costs.
- Support practices that hurt our local economy.
You know how airlines are notorious for overbooking flight capacity? Ever been put on a waiting list although you bought your ticket far in advance? Many Internet companies do something similar. They play risky odds with their clients' site availability, gambling that they won't all need their allocated bandwidth at the same time. We don't do that.
If you're only in it for the money, you want to keep equipment costs low by squeezing as many sites as possible on a server. It's a common practice of bulk hosting businesses to use compression technologies that sacrifice their clients' site performance for corporate profits.We don't do that.
We care about the members of our community, and our reputation means more to us than profits based on popularity or cheap services — it means we can look our friends in the eye and feel good about ourselves. While many big companies use computer-voice-enabled phone trees to herd customer inquiries to their overseas call centers, we provide good jobs and a good lifestyle for local people. Destroying communities for the sake of mega-profits? We don't do that.