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Re: Purley Hosting

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In article <5263ee5f49news@highpath.net>, Chris Bell <news@highpath.net>
wrote:
> I get the feeling that some of the criticism of Purley Hosting comes
> from people who have never tried to run a small business themselves.
> Take it from me - it's not easy. 

No, but maybe a small business which is also an ISP needs to reach
'critical mass' staff-wise before an instant response to such issues can
be expected. I would heartily recommend getting at least one alternative
email address, just for those times when your service is down and
something important is needed somewhere. 

Stuff like gmail/googlemail can be excellent as an alternative in such
circumstances. As a plus, my phone tells me when gmail arrives.

> Maybe we should be saying thank-you
> to Neil for providing such an excellent alternative to those big,
> impersonal companies, and be a little more understanding when he has to
> sort out the problems.

My ISP's only problem which affected me in the last few years was their
complete loss of one hard drive which contained some web sites. Free web
space doesn't come with a backup so the whole thing had to be uploaded to
a new server. No biggie. This was actually a good thing because I know
there were a few stray temporary files which had been placed manually by
FTP and not sync'ed with my offline version. Fortunately, the offline
version of every site I manage can be available on the web too - during
office hours.

-- 
Tim Hill of timil.com . . .
* supports TFT & shares in cheaper ethical telecoms http://tjrh.eu/phone
* has a genuine & spam-proof address for Usenet http://www.invalid.org.uk/
* accepts incoming email: substitute postmaster@ for tim@

... "A contract of eternal bond of love confirm'd by mutual joinder of hands" Twelfth N, Act v, Sc.1

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Purley Hosting Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-02-18 16:50 +0000
  Re: Purley Hosting Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2012-02-18 17:17 +0000
    Re: Purley Hosting Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-02-18 18:21 +0000
      Re: Purley Hosting Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2012-02-18 19:45 +0000
        Re: Purley Hosting Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-02-18 20:36 +0000
          Re: Purley Hosting Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-02-18 20:49 +0000
            Re: Purley Hosting Chris Hughes <news@noonehere.co.uk> - 2012-02-18 21:26 +0000
              Re: Purley Hosting Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-02-18 21:56 +0000
              Re: Purley Hosting Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-02-18 22:04 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Chris Hughes <news@noonehere.co.uk> - 2012-02-18 23:03 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Chris Bell <news@highpath.net> - 2012-02-19 11:14 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Chris Hughes <news@noonehere.co.uk> - 2012-02-19 11:55 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-02-19 12:43 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2012-02-19 14:16 +0100
                Re: Purley Hosting Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-02-19 13:53 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-02-19 12:16 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-02-19 12:29 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2012-02-19 12:42 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-02-19 11:08 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Neil Spellings <neil@spellings.net> - 2012-02-19 07:34 -0800
                Re: Purley Hosting Jim Nagel <jimnewsm10d@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2012-02-20 13:32 +0000
                Re: Purley Hosting Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2012-02-20 14:35 +0000

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