Archive for August, 2009

Guess What’s Going On?

The economy is bad.  People are counting their dollars and making tough decisions on what to spend their money on.

At the same time, the face of the web is rapidly changing.  Waaayy back when, web hosting was expensive.  And you didn’t get much for your buck.  I remember the days when domain names were $70 a YEAR!  And hosting was $50 or more per month for 100MB of space and maybe 2GB of bandwidth.

Then came the “Happy Days”.  The days when companies started coming out with cheaper and cheaper domain names. Web Hosting became cheaper and cheaper too, until you were getting huge amounts of space and bandwidth (yes, some claimed to be “unlimited”, read our post on how THAT works).

In the past couple of years, we’ve started to see the pendulum swing back toward the middle.  › Continue reading