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I don't think so...The market is getting large, and like a bush, needs pruning from time to time - sometimes large branches need to come off in order to make the bush a great thing to look at once more. If we are all sitting here watching these e-companies take off and fly with no problems, then I'd be really worried that e-commerce is becomming something that we are all not really interested in just yet: our only means for buying everything. If these companies didn't fail, then we'd have to worry about those Mom & Pop stores failing, or those Malls that we grew up with (and where we sometimes met our girlfriends/boyfriends) would close down. These large e-companies do need trimming - We don't need to worry about cutting down the whole bush, but we do need to trim to keep the bush healthy and something to enjoy.
I should worry as well, because I make my living off of webhosting & webdesign - companies come to me for their website and I help them. I hope everyone succeeds in their endeavor, but I also know that not all can.
I guess the rule is "Everything in Moderation"
Adam
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*Sniff*That's the best thing that ever happened to me. I have my whole childhood back again. Now, all I have to do is fire up the TRON arcade machine right behind me and I'll have the full arcade effect...
Adam
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The best one would be...
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Re:Stop whiningAn hour?! What the heck are you compiling in there, a new car?
A fresh compile and install on a P2@300mhz only takes about 20 minutes at most...
Adam
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Yeah, but can it get hacked?Then make it so that there appears to be a large meteor coming for the earth...
Adam
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Why the red & white ball?
I have an old black-box NeXTStep sitting here beside me right now (and running) - one of the screensavers for it is the red & white ball that they always show for the Amiga. I've never seen or used an Amiga, so can someone explain why they use that red & white ball to me? I always think "NeXT" instead of "Amiga" when I see it...
Adam
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Wow!All I have to say is that when someone donates that kinda money, it must be a good feeling for him/her. But, I bet there are also other reasons, say maybe a tax writeoff? Just a thought. Either way, it is still a great thing for us, the general public...
Adam
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sounds good to meCan't wait to see all the KDE improvements, as well as the new KDE office Suite...
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Adam Frey
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I'm running my own...
I'm running my own webhosting company (insert blatant plug here). The biggest problems I've seen haven't been my servers or my mistakes (although I am human and have made a few here and there), but the biggest problems I've seen have been with the local telco. There is no alternative around these parts, so I'm kinda stuck with what I have. I'm not so sure getting a 2nd T1 would help, because I'd still have to go thru my local telco for everything to get connected, of course going with a different ISP (the big guys like UUnet, Qwest, etc) could help matters, but then again they make big mistakes too. I think it was Qwest that screwed something up about a month or two ago and lost access for Virginia, parts of Maryland, and New Jersey for several days. Given, everyone makes mistakes and even if you did go with more than one webhosting provider, and a seperate email account somewhere, who is to say that all your companies won't be using the same major ISP (if everyone is using, say, UUnet and UUnet screws up bigtime, you're out of service).
No webhosting Company advertises who they go thru for you to make a logical decision, because if they did, people might get the notion to look up the bigger company and see what kind of deals they can get thru them instead (bad news for little guy). So how does a small company compete with the bigger companies? They can't really offer better service, but they can charge somewhat lower prices and offer better and friendlier service. I've found that a one-on-one service has been a better selling point than big company "one night stands" where they lure you in, get your money and forget about you. An occasional *personal* email to your customers asking how their service is and getting their feedback goes a long way.
There is no *inexpensive* foolproof plan for webhosting, as long as there is human error involved, but you can pick out who treats you good as far as getting service goes. Who do you think will treat you better, the guy who's means of putting food on the table is his own webhosting service or the guy who works for a large company that makes millions from everyone and you are just another few megs of space on a server? -
That's why I recently started my own...
Webhosting Company: Crimson Networks, so that people don't have to put up with big company screw ups all the time. Given, everyone screws up and all companies great or small make big mistakes, but when you have a large company there is a certain extra lack of communication that can just ruin a customer's day. Someone cancels their site, or someone asks for changes to be made, etc, and for some reason they don't get accomplished as often as they should. Someone loses the backup tapes and everyone blames everyone else, instead of looking for them.
A small company that has a select few people working for them should always prove to have better communication amongst their workers and better all around service for their customers. I've dealt with plenty of big companies and how they treat the "little guy" is just plain wrong in many cases (I think getting a T1 installed from Bell Atlantic was the biggest headache I've ever had to deal).
I guess what I'm trying to say here is that small companies are usually better at getting things to work when things like this do go wrong. Communication is everything.