Re: Hosting Company Recommendations Needed

Busted?  This is not something to be busted for.

I commend you on your short research.  But your research only lists a domain
name and the time the record was created.

I do not deny this, as well as the web site does show that it is now a
division of Choitz Ltd.  It does not show that Virtual Technologies had been
in business for a few short years, under another name, prior to our
acquiring its organization and assets.  Nor that I had done business with
them during that time.

Someone had asked for recommendations, and I had replied with a few short
lines.  Not enough though, to be considered a sales pitch, which would have
been poor taste.  Had I not owned the company at this time, I still would
have recommended it.  But at the same time, had I not owned it, I would have
felt a little more freedom to say more.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and I stand behind mine, more than you
could ever guess.

Scott


----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam L. Simpson" <adam2(at)netsonic.net>
To: "Scott A. Choitz" <schoitz(at)new.rr.com>
Cc: "HWG-Business List" <hwg-business(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: Hosting Company Recommendations Needed


> Hmm.. interesting first hand experience.
>
>
> Registrant:
> Choitz Ltd
>    2547 He Nis Ra Lane
>    Green Bay,, WI  54304-1771
>    USA
>
>    Domain: VIRTUALTECHNOLOGIES.NET
>    Registrar: DomainBank.com
>
>    Administrative Contact:
>
>    Choitz, Scott choitzltd(at)choitz.com
>    2547 He Nis Ra Lane
>    Green Bay, WI  54304-1771
>    USA   1-920-429-2870
>    (FAX)1-920-429-2871
>
>    Technical Contact:
>
>    Choitz, Scott choitzltd(at)choitz.com
>    2547 He Nis Ra Lane
>    Green Bay, WI  54304-1771
>    USA   1-920-429-2870
>    (FAX)1-920-429-2871
>
>    Zone Contact:
>
>    Choitz, Scott choitzltd(at)choitz.com
>    2547 He Nis Ra Lane
>    Green Bay, WI  54304-1771
>    USA   1-920-429-2870
>    (FAX)1-920-429-2871
>
>    Record created on 06-06-2000
>    Record expires on 06-06-2002
>    Database last updated 10-10-2001 02:00:09 PM
>
>    Domain servers in listed order:
>
>
>
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Scott A. Choitz wrote:
>
> > I started dealing with Virtual Technologies,
> > http://www.virtualtechnologies.net a few years ago.
> >
> > Good support, willingness to work with its clients, and easy to
communicate
> > with them.
> > May be a small company with only a few hundred servers on the network,
but
> > they keep everyone informed of network problems, upgrades and such and
are
> > on top of very situation that has come up, as it happens, not hours down
the
> > road like others I have dealt with.
> >
> > Just my 2 cents worth
> >
> > Scott
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sheldon J. Potter" <sjpotter(at)essential-connect.com>
> > To: "HWG-Business List" <hwg-business(at)hwg.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 5:06 PM
> > Subject: Hosting Company Recommendations Needed
> >
> >
> > > Hello -- I've been providing hosting for my own site and all my
customer
> > > Web sites through a large hosting company (I resell) for several years
> > > that has had a remarkable record of ups and downs with me both
> > > technically and vs. billing screw ups. I've been too patient with
them.
> > > Up till now.  Too many other damn things to do in those 24 hours each
> > > day to make the change.
> > >
> > > Today the last straw, after 2 days of repeated server failures,
> > > inability to access emails, creative, and always different fairy tales
> > > about What Went Wrong, promises of fixes that only resulted in more
> > > service outages, from their tech non-support folks, nobody seems to
give
> > > a rats a**, including line supervisors.  Increasingly frustrated
clients
> > > are being as nice as they can be about it, so far...
> > >
> > > I've already felt it necessary to issue credits to one client's two
> > > hosting accounts to try to compensate them for their inconvenience,
but
> > > that strategy isn't a viable long term revenue model...
> > >
> > > It's time for a refreshing change.
> > >
> > > Looking for services from a hosting company in the U.S. that provides
> > > reseller plans that will work financially for a small web development
> > > company (me) that develops and hosts small to medium, low to modest
> > > traffic level, Web sites, mostly content but may be moving into
limited
> > > ecommerce (low end shopping cart stuff), included features like
> > > cgi-bins, liberal quantity of POPS, aliases, password protected
> > > directories, ftp & telnet, current Perl, SSI, raw server logs access,
> > > plus a useful control panel to allow me to configure/administer the
> > > standard stuff.  I pay about $60/month for basic plus $2/month for
each
> > > virtual host account.
> > >
> > > It goes without saying that I need radically better up-time
reliability
> > > (a formal SLA would be nice, in view of my experiences to date), and
> > > tech support people who provide actual tech support.  Oh yes, it would
> > > be nice if the tech support people could speak and write in
intelligible
> > > sentences; these people frequently reply to support requests with what
> > > is damn near gibberish.
> > >
> > > Any direct recommendations?  I won't name any names, but *don't
> > > recommend anybody with the initials AIT.  :-)
> > >
> > > Or perhaps even any online resources for weeding out the wheat from
the
> > Chaff?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Sheldon Potter
> > > Owner
> > > --
> > > The Essential Connection  --  http://www.essential-connect.com
> > > Web Design and Hosting
> > > for the photographic and nonprofit communities
> > > _________________________
> > > Member:
> > > International Webmasters Association
> > > (Associate member) Internet Professional Publishers Association
> > > HTML Writers Guild
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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