You're wrong on uptime, but I don't think that undermines your argument.
For some cases their are hosts that can do the job for cheap, and premium hosts won't/can;t afford to always compete on price. they can and do offer premium service that is necessary in some cases, for some ppl, but not for everyone and every project.
...But nat net does have "beat" anybody sales once a year where they do match ev1.net prices.
+ your biz etiquette statement is dead-on.
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Originally posted by 49thParallel
Yes, kernal updates, ensim updates and the like do require a reboot. But, I do not consider that downtime. And, as I am sure you too conduct these updates on a regular basis. So I doubt that you consider this downtime either. I have not had an "unexpected" incidence of downtime since part way into the second month of the server I mentioned above, And even in that case, ev1 rebooted my server within 6 minutes.
The point of my reply...you asked for hosts to match the customer's requests. ev1servers.net can. And as I pointed out, hire yourself one fo the many server gurus on the ev1server forums to do updates and such, and it won't cost you much more then $20 bucks a month per machine.
I am not in any way a server guru. I use the forums for info, and let the hired guns do my upgrades. So, for a real total of about $130 per month, I get a great machine, great bandwidth...and 1,000 gigs of transfer.
P.S. Don't take it personally. I spend as much time in mainstream business as I do in the adult industry. And I am always taken aback by what is considered proper business etiquette in this biz.
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