Cost Vs. Value
Many people look to save money on website hosting, which isn’t a bad thing. However, you should never sacrifice service and dependability to save a few bucks a month. Case in point, two separate website projects that I’m (trying) to work on today…
I’m trying to perform some site updates for two web design clients, and this work is being billed hourly. Both of these updates have already taken three times longer than they should and they’re not even complete yet. Why? Bad hosting.
I’ve done the work, but I can’t get connected to upload. Since the updates are time sensitive I have to keep trying, so I can’t just try again later. I do feel guilty sometimes for being “on the clock” for a client but simply sitting here at my desk. But it’s not my fault that the hosting has gone wacky, and I can’t give away this time, it’s time I can’t spend doing other tasks.
Ultimately, any money the client has saved over the past couple of months using cheap web hosting just got ate up in unnecessary fee that they’ll owe to me for sitting here dealing with the crappy hosting.
Proving that once again it’s not about the cost, it’s about VALUE.
