Wearing our new shoes and celebrating with Kool-Aid!

Ever hear the expression ‘the cobbler’s children have no shoes’?  If not, I’m sure you’ve heard the cliche’ ‘drink your own kool-aid’.

Well, we at WSM are a bit embarrassed to admit we ain’t bought any new shoes for a while, and we certainly ain’t been drinking our own kool-aid relative to keeping our own websites in order (:>/  Truth be told, we sort of let ourselves off the hook for a while because we have more fun working on your stuff.

So, dang it, we’re going to get out the leather and lace, and make some new shoes!  They say admitting the problem is the first step toward solving it, and we want to solve it.

Thanks to Sean, one of our resident Joomla/WordPress dev geeks, we’ve completed some tweaks on our corporate website and we’ve spiffed up the blog here.  And Nathan hooked it all up at the server so now it’s all ready to roll.

We’re going to be regularly cooking up some tasty tech tidbits, merry marketing musings, and maybe even a joke or 2 (tasteful, I’m sure LOL!) along the way.

We’re doing this all for you, our customers, in the hopes that we can lighten your load, reduce the daily stress of running a web and/or hosting services reliant business, and maybe even get a laugh or 2 out of ya.

Please bookmark our blog and visit it often.  We love to share both our insights and idiosyncrasies with you!

If you ever need us, call Jamie at any time day or night – his 3 young sons don’t let him sleep anyway, and he told me himself that all he lives for is helping our customers 24/7/365.  Get me at the side door and I’ll give ya his private number…

Cheers!

-the mad poochman

A little healthy competition is great for the customer

So this morning I am surfing LinkedIn over a cup of coffee and come across a very good query regarding Rackspace vs. Hosting.com – check it out:

http://budurl.com/ugah

Since WebSiteMovers.com is officially ‘hosting provider agnostic’, not to mention a respected and proud professional services partner to both companies, I decided against answering the question as posed. 

Instead, I’ll note here that we frequently get asked this exact same question, with the principal subject providers varying between any number of good hosting companies.  The answer is always best arrived at by understanding and prioritizing your own unique selection criteria on a categorical basis. 

Example criteria:

1) Price

2) Performance

3) Support

4) Equipment

5) Location

Now simply rank each individual factor based on its highest priority for your own company needs and situation, bearing in mind and being realistic about how much (if any) in-house IT staff you have, the ‘maturity’ of your applications that need hosting, how much support you have/will need, your real budget and other factors.

In the end, most all hosting companies basically provide the exact same product and service.  Some have lower price points, some have better service, yet others have more updated/newer data centers and still others offer some valuable additional services etc.  What it comes down to is, what is best for YOU and your company’s hosting needs.  In other words, there is no one single perfect provider for every company.  Indeed, some are better than others at certain services/products, yet others take the lead on different components. 

If you need some help identifying what hosting provider/service is best for your unique needs, look me up and I’ll be happy to offer some assistance.

kenan@websitemovers.com

512-238-3151

Happy hosting!