Re: Web Hosting

That is true.  Plus a lot of hosting companies and ISP's outsource there
website.  I've designed sites for a lot of hosting/isp's.

Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Tom Polk" <jtpolk(at)texas.net>
To: <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: Web Hosting


> > look for a web hosting service do you just go for price?  Do you look
> > for price and services?  Have any of you based you decision on the fact
that
> > the web host site did NOT validate in the W3C html checker?
>
> What you are looking for are the services of the hosting service, not
> the quality of their web site.
>
> For instance, I there is a hosting service/ISP here in Austin that does
> great hosting, great uptimes, keeps people informed of what is happening
> and has a solid reputation as a hosting service with first rate customer
> service.  Their front page dies in the validator. The author doesn't
> have a DOCTYPE and did not quote attributes of elements. However, the
> services are first rate.
>
> That being said, I would hesitate if I ran across a site that had not
> just errors, but mistakes that would make a web site almost unusable in
> some browsers. That shows an ignorance of the technology. There is, in
> my mind, a world of difference between a web site with HTML coding
> errors due to ignorance, and a very slick and sophisticated web site
> that looks great in just one type of browser.
>
> If they have a list of sites hosted there, you might send email to 10 or
> 20 of them and ask them what has been their experience with the hosting
> service.
>
>
> --
>
>
> Jim Tom Polk -:- jtpolk(at)texas.net -:- http://camalott.com/~jtpolk/
> ''You might as well fall flat on your face as
>   lean over too far backwards.''      --James Thurber--
>    "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three
>           elements: energy, matter and enlightened self-interest."
>   - G'Kar  "Survivors"
>
>

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