So… Recently I posted about moving off my new host to a new one, and then onto a new server shortly thereafter. I teased it with a note that more information would be coming later when the time was right.
The time is right.
Have you ever noticed that most hosting companies on the web seem to have the same shpiel? They’re offering you enormous power, fantastic uptime, amazing performance, a cup of tea, and a coupon for a trip to the bunny ranch if you’re ever in Vegas, all with a 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999998% uptime guarantee or your money back.
Of course you’ve heard them. But how many hosts really deliver? How many hosts collect your money month after month and return little? Or how many promise 99.9+% uptime, and when you try to collect on it, they tell you that the policy only applies on the third Monday of the month when it’s a full moon and their ranch is paid off? I don’t know about you, but I’ve had one too many of those.
Slobokan was generating a lot of traffic on his site, and was told by Hostgator that he had to move to a dedicated box because he was bringing down some of the other sites on his reseller server. He was making the decision to move and I made the suggestion of moving onto the box with him to defer the costs. Then we had an idea. What if we helped out our friends and family members who wanted to set up sites? Not necessarily as even a business, just a service for those who have had enough with their hosting company.
With that, Second Rate Hosting was born.
Why the name? I think Slobokan said it best on his site:
Our concept is simple. Everyone else claims to be the best. They brag about uptime percentages and they make promises they can’t always keep. We don’t lead people on. Nobody, and no server, is perfect. Why not admit that fact and get it out of the way?
Overall, where would you like to host your website?
With a company that makes a lot of empty promises and claims to be “first rate”?
Or with a company that makes no promises and simply works hard to make sure your web hosting experience is a happy one?
I’m not going to hand out some long line of bullshit here. We’ve had our growing pains, and my recent burst of internet fame wasn’t helping, but things have settled down enormously and will continue to do so. We don’t believe in overpromising and underdelivering, which seems to be the motto of the industry today.
Maybe not being an “industry insider” makes us immune to bullshit as well.
If you’re in need of hosting, check us out. We’ll do our best to make your hosting experience a good one, but it’s promise-free hosting at a very good price. No uptime guarantees. No low price guarantees. No money back guarantees that we won’t honor.
Just good, reliable hosting.
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