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I was using a standalone niche host in the Uk called TSOHost who seemed quite good. They recently announced they were shutting down their cloud hosting and gav
by jonwinstanley 4y ago
I was using a standalone niche host in the Uk called TSOHost who seemed quite good.
They recently announced they were shutting down their cloud hosting and gave just 45 days notice to move sites.
Funny part was that the way they gave their customers notice was flawed and most customers didn’t receive any email from them.
I wish a sense of deflation was the only issue I’d had!
- asim 4y agoYea that's pretty painful. I recently had to shutdown a service for my startup but I left the infrastructure running. People will gradually transition out and the traffic will go to zero. Not everyone can afford that luxury. I just made it explicitly clear there's no ongoing maintenance or support.
- devoutsalsa 4y agoI once heard a guy say the best way to get people off your platform was to just keep raising the price. Make a fortune off the few that stick around with fewer customers to keep happy.
- asim 4y agoI wish that was the case. It never formulated like that. If you raise prices your support burden also goes up. Your need to innovate increases. The gap between profitability and the funding needed to get there is wide. Hence most startups die.
- christophilus 4y agoHe’s saying, when you’re ready to shut your business down, keep jacking up the prices, and eventually your customers will leave. In that scenario, you don’t need to innovate or provide good support. The whole point is soft-kicking your customers to the curb while making some money. Ethical? Probably not.
- topicseed 4y agoOh wow, it was my first ever paid host back a few years ago. How come they've shut that down, what's their new business model now?
- jonwinstanley 4y agoThey were acquired by GoDaddy, but seem to be desperate to get rid of all existing customers rather than migrate them to GoDaddy's hosting? It's odd
- nix23 4y agoIf i need a UK host i always jump to Mystic-beasts. They are great, i use them even for Colo. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/servers/virtual https://www.mythic-beasts.com/servers/virtual
- hamzakc 4y agoI second this advice. While they are not the cheapest, they definitely know their stuff and provide excellent support.