Gonna tell you a story boy and girls...
Back in the internet's early days, a little known photographer started
a website in February 1996, in Buffalo NY, thru an internet cafe with
a 128K connection to the net. Well, at least for 2 days, until he got
listed on a link site called Persian Kitty, and saw 2K a day in traffic.
The internet cafe kicked me off, when there own homepage would take more
than 20 minutes to load. Ended up at the second biggest ISP in Buffalo,
and paying somewhere around $600-700 a month for bandwidth... my site
accounted for 10% of their total bandwidth.
When I moved from that ISP, I naturally went with a good friend that
I had from our association in YNot... SweetT. By switching to NatNet
immediately resulted in my bandwidth bill being reduced to about $395
a month. Then a couple of years later, the folks at NatNet had the
unmitigated gall to LOWER my rate to $195 per month... can you imagine?
Well my business and traffic have never really recovered from the
domain hijacking I dealt with about 2 years ago... right now
I average less than 500 visitors a day. So I gave NatNet
a request to see what could be done to change my setup from
a basic dedicated server setup to a shared server setup.
Well, Tony and NatNet decided it would be appropriate to grandfather
a few things in my setup not normally provided with a shared plan,
like SSL. Just so nothing would need to be changed on my site.
And for all this service what do they want from me? Less than
$30.00 per month.
Just wanted to give folks a heads up on the kind of treatment
you will end up getting if you go with SweetT and National Net.
