In response to Bone's statements and implications, I have this to say for myself:
1) I work in the IT field by day and have done so for about 6 years now. Everything from owning/operating a retail store that built and repaires PC's to managing a web team as I do now. Also, I have worked with adult websites on a casual basis for as long a time and am by no means new to this game; though I am also not even close to being an expert.
2) I have known the former hosting company (and its principals) since 1995 and have done lots of business with them involving MAINSTREAM stuff only. The problem was that they had never had anyone be SUCCESSFUL at getting mass amounts of traffic (adult or otherwise) before so they had zero reason to doubt their servers' abilities. We ALL learned and all I wanted to do was pass the learning along to others that may be in the same boat now or later; not be accused of blatant ignorance.
3) I've had the domain for 5 or so years now, it's been on their servers reliably all along, and only recently did I decide to use it for adult galleries, etc. This wasn't a fly-by-night acquisition that I looked for the cheapest host I could find parked it there.
5) Geocities? Hmmm... What was the name of this message board again? Heh-heh-heh...
If you want to make a point, don't use someone or something as an example if you don't have all the facts.
I'm not pissed or anything. It sounds like your point was the same as mine and that point was to get the word out that not all providers/hosts can do what they THINK they can and it is better to launch major projects on proven warhorses.
*phew* I'm tired AND hungry now.
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