We live in an odd society. Exploring the city I frequently come across baristas attempting to pawn off $7 cups of water that’s filtered dirt, $5 cookies and I’m barraged with ads forcing $400 pieces of plastic that output audio down my throat.

Service, at least on the internet, has become almost free. Daily I see advertisements for web hosting for mere pennies a month (See: Reality check for web hosting clients everywhere) that include 24×7 support, promises of hand holding, a free carwash and millions of dollars in google ad credits!

What a deal! At least you believe so, initially. The trouble with these sorts of providers is they’re either really selling themselves short, thirsty for market share or that’s really all their services are really worth. Eek, on thoughts of the latter.

Not so long ago I was contacted privately by a client who truly concerned we were selling ourselves short — after all, how can such great service be had for mere pennies? (32 cents a day, if you’re on our fused1 package in fact.)

Quite frankly, I would agree with him and his concerns. Service most certainly isn’t free and quality support requires constant investment and sacrifice. In essence the price our clients pay isn’t for the hosting. Still our pricing model is considered very inexpensive compared to a large amount of the providers out there and we’ll be making modifications soon to correct that substantially.

No, prices aren’t rising but we’ll be launching a new set of packages when we finally find some time!
For now, back to the hiring process..