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          Chris Bell <news@highpath.net> wrote:

> Chris Hughes wrote:
>> Steve Fryatt wrote:
>>> Bob Latham wrote:
>>>> Russell Hafter News wrote:

>>>>> Not working again for me.
>>>> Yes, same story again. Really, really not good enough.
>>> Sigh.  There's a feeling of Deja Vu here.
>> Oh dear server 6 was the one that crashed last time.

> Please can I put in a good word for Purley Hosting?  Neil works hard to
> provide a professional yet personal service.  He's friendly, honest and
> approachable and he understands RiscOS.  He bends structures to
> accomodate individual requirements and works long hours to sort out the
> inevitable problems that crop up from time to time.

I am well aware of that and why I stay with him (just renewed in fact)

> And yes, things occasionally go wrong.  And he occasionally has a
> weekend off, no doubt crossing his fingers while he's away.  Bigger
> companies can afford to employ people 24 hours a day, but do they
> really provide a better service in practice?  In my experience they
> usually don't and they're usually very difficult to communicate with
> when things do go wrong.

If companies don't communicate they lose business.

> 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.  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.

I think you are being a little over sensitive here, I was not being 
critical of Purley. No service can be up 100% of the time, minor 
outages like this happen, people need to be sensible about it.

I did not even notice the problem until someone mentioned it.


-- 
Chris Hughes

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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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