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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;samjimmy, post: 310218, member: 3813&quot;]It&#039;s a bit of a stretch to suggest that one run their own server (especially wren they don&#039;t have any idea of how to do that, knowledge of web servers, etc.).&nbsp; Loss of power is only one of many reasons that servers &quot;go down&quot; (which generally refers to a service/server stopping, not loss of power), and the cost of true battery backup units, generators, servers not to mention the time that goes into all of it generally makes it not worth it for the purpose of having one&#039;s own site.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have plenty of people who come to the web hosting forum wanting to start their own hosting company or rent a server, until they realize that it actually takes knowledge to do so, which requires effort and time, plus money to do it right.&nbsp; Of course you can always do it the wrong way, but that seems to be the exact opposite of what you are trying to accomplish.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Specalize in Lincoln&#039;s, period.&nbsp; I do not plan on becoming a pro coin dealer per se, but my goal is to provide a type of shopping enviorment I would like to buy from myself.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Selling hosting to others when you don&#039;t know what you&#039;re doing, or trying to run a server without any knowledge of how to do so is like opening up a coin shop and selling &quot;shiney round things.&quot;&nbsp; P or D?&nbsp; Who cares it&#039;s a 1986!&nbsp; Steel?&nbsp; Dang, these things are made of copper!&nbsp; Sheeeeeeesh.</p><p><br /></p><p>IT departments can&#039;t be replaced with a battery backup.</p><p>Apache has nothing to do with indians.</p><p>DNS isn&#039;t something women get once a month.</p><p>Soft and Hard reboots aren&#039;t made of leather.</p><p>And so on...</p><p><br /></p><p>Few listen the first time (they start listing after everything hits the fan), but at least consider reliability #1 (not price) and if you think you can get everything unlimited, plus the kitchen sink, all for $1/mo., then start figuring out how to move everything to another provider because you&#039;ll be using that information sooner than you think.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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