- If you tell your customers to protect against DDOS, yet you don't spend a few bucks on route 53 or cloudflare business- you have a credibility problem. 1a. if your business isn't hosted on your own hardware- you have issues. You can at least have one of your multisite failover sites on your own hardware.
- if you answer PayPal disputes faster than you provision or answer support tickets, you have a credibility issue.
- If you post multiple times during the week including sniping at customers and other providers), but have an empty FAQ on your site or haven't added anything this week - you have a credibility issue.
- If you can't provision your VPS correctly and yet expect to have paying customers host their websites on it, you have a credibility issue and a reading comprehension issue.
- If you don't send at least one client an offer to help for every time you post something inane in here - you just don't know how to run a business.
- If you think companies should keep giving you stuff like email for free or trial vps- you don't understand business is to make money.
- If you are still signing up customers for monthly plans and wonder why your server is abused and a spam factory and you have huge turnover- well ask your customers why they are truly using your service.
- you can bash services like DO and Linode all you want. But you are competing against a $5 machine with terrific articles. And your choice to compete is to overload your nodes, bash other people on lowend talk and at least 2 other boards with high school drama, and have no instructions for you clients other than you should have done a,b,c so therefore I'm shitting you off.
It's really sad that many of you think this is proper. To me lowend talk should be where you can find cool tips for building a server correctly, cool tips for assisting clients, and instructions on great things to do with the VPS. Plus as an added bonus meet nice people around the world with passion for computers and other hobbies, not little dram inducers..
Pro tip to Company owners- easiest way to not get bashed on the boards is to actually answer support tickets promptly.
EDIT- regarding owned hardware- this is what I was referring to: I was referring to some providers hosting their sites on other providers servers. leased or owned it doesn't matter to me. When the don't have enough confidence in their own setup to put their own production site on it- that's a problem in my mind