On 3/29/2010 8:37 PM, Gordon wrote:
>> For a business, the website customer-screwing by AT&T is the worst of
>> all. I had my site for years and it had a high ranking with the search
>> engines - top10. Now I have been FORCED to move it to another host
>> with a new URL unknown to the search engines. My initial outlay for 3
>> years of webhosting and a domain was over $150. Fortunately I was able
>> to upload my site to the new host without the typical professional fee
>> of $250 to do so, but it took alot of my time. In addition, I'll have
>> to toss and replace about $50 worth of business cards with my old URL
>> web address on them, replace other printed materials with the old URL,
>> change many documents, and inform many contacts. I will inevitably
>> lose business because the old URL, now in many website links and
>> hard-copy publications, has become useless.
> Who's the bigger fool here? As a business, you should have your own
> registered domain name. Your e-mail should be under that domain
> name, your web site should be under that domain name. You web site
> should be hosted separately from your ISP for just this reason.
> I have been through several ISP's in the last 10 years and have
> not had to update or replace anything. I have not had to notify anyone
> of a new e-mail address. It's all portable. The only change
> required is to change a few settings over at Godaddy.com and
> no-one even knows that I changed ISP's.
> It also makes it easy to vote with my wallet.
Exactly, if your email is momspasta@att.net and your website is
att.net/users/momspasta you saved a whopping $50/year and set yourself
up for all kinds of grief by not registering a domain. I don't care for
AT&T but anyone who uses personal webspace and an ISP for email bears
the lions share of the responsibility when the ISP makes a business
decision to change or goes out of business.
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>> all. I had my site for years and it had a high ranking with the search
>> engines - top10. Now I have been FORCED to move it to another host
>> with a new URL unknown to the search engines. My initial outlay for 3
>> years of webhosting and a domain was over $150. Fortunately I was able
>> to upload my site to the new host without the typical professional fee
>> of $250 to do so, but it took alot of my time. In addition, I'll have
>> to toss and replace about $50 worth of business cards with my old URL
>> web address on them, replace other printed materials with the old URL,
>> change many documents, and inform many contacts. I will inevitably
>> lose business because the old URL, now in many website links and
>> hard-copy publications, has become useless.
> Who's the bigger fool here? As a business, you should have your own
> registered domain name. Your e-mail should be under that domain
> name, your web site should be under that domain name. You web site
> should be hosted separately from your ISP for just this reason.
> I have been through several ISP's in the last 10 years and have
> not had to update or replace anything. I have not had to notify anyone
> of a new e-mail address. It's all portable. The only change
> required is to change a few settings over at Godaddy.com and
> no-one even knows that I changed ISP's.
> It also makes it easy to vote with my wallet.