HostPC supports competitor in crisis
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See, this is how people are supposed to behave. I have a lot of respect for Joe’s integrity. Joe is the owner of HostPC, the hosting service I use here. On June 1, when his competitor ThePlanet suffered a major crisis that took down their clients’ sites, Joe made this offer:
This evening, one of the datacenters for ThePlanet suffered a major explosion in their electrical room which knocked out power to thousands of customers and destroyed three walls of the building. This was a MAJOR event, supposedly affecting >9,000 servers.
As the leader in DirectAdmin services, we maintain several areas where we can accomodate emergency situations such as these. We are making available, at no cost, as space permits, room for other hosting companies to move their customers (using Directadmin only) temporarily to our facilities.
If we can be of assistance during this emergency for you or your Directadmin customers, please call our Texas office directly at (979)985-5488 - or send an email to joe@hostpc.com with your details (name of company, contact, space needed, etc) - and we’ll see what we can do to accomodate you as best as possible. We don’t have unlimited space, but are willing to share what we do have available to get you and your clients through this emergency.
Best wishes to those affected by this issue. I’m sure ThePlanet is doing everything possible to get services restored.
He didn’t do it to steal the customers. According to the linked discussion, when the crisis was over everyone moved back where they came from. He actually helped a competitor out of a jam because it was the right thing to do. Not a whole lot of businesses would do that.
HostPC provides a great, professional, and low-cost service and they operate with integrity and a customer service perspective. I’ve been with them for years now, and I’m happy I found them. The kinds of things like the quote above are just the icing on the cake. I not only enjoy their service, I’m proud of them.
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June 6th, 2008 at 9:58 am
I had just seen this post a little bit earlier. I just finished signing up with bluehost to start a new domain and wordpress blog.
The plan is to try blogging my families experience with Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). It will be called The Weekly Share.
If you are interested, I’m trying to follow (roughly)the guidelines here:
http://www.doughroller.net/make-money-blogging/money-blogginghow-install-wordpress/
Jeff, you use Wordpress for this blog right? I’m might be bugging you for some advice.
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June 6th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Dave:
Yep, this is WordPress in all its glory. Well, some fraction thereof, I suppose.
Setting up WP is really easy. It’s basically downloading the zip, unzipping, uploading to your server, and setting a couple options.
You might also want to see if Bluehost has something like Installatron (a service HostPC uses) that auto-installs popular scripts for you. WordPress would undoubtedly be included. [oh, actually I just looked at that site you linked to... looks like the installer they use is "Fantastico De Luxe" - so it should be a no-brainer.]
There are a whole host of Plug-ins for WordPress that make life better, too.
That CSA sounds interesting. What’s that about? How’d you get started with it?
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June 6th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Jeff,
I first started reading about CSAs about two or three years ago. It came across my radar as I’ve been moving in a ‘greener’ direction. At least I’m trying to live more green.
To read more about CSAs try the following:
http://buylocalpa.com/splash.html
This is the farm that we bought a share of:
http://www.goldfinchfarm.com/
When we purchased our share (back in March) I had concerns about the cost. However, we went ahead based on the idea that it would be worth it for the fresh local produce. Now with the way food prices are rising I think I may be able to make a frugal case for CSA participation. One of my goals with the blog is to price our weekly share as if it was purchased from a grocery store and determine if the CSA helps us to come out ahead (from a dollar standpoint) over the course of the season.
We should receive our first share next week. Tomorrow I’m going out to visit the farm and get a tour.
Dave
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June 6th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Sounds interesting. I’ll be watching your blog to see how it goes. (make sure you let me know when it’s set up)
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