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05/03/2003 Archived Entry: "Website Hosting"

WEBSITE HOSTING

My first year with MetaPros will come to an end the first of June. It has been the best web relationship I've had in all the years I've been thumping this keyboard and they'll continue to get my business.

Their support is fantastic and I've not had one ripple of difficulty. They keep my website up and running better than anyone has in the past.They took me as a refugee from another host and handled the transition expertly.

I originally got my domain name and signed up with Informatics but they immediately sold it to someone in Melbourne AU where it was unreachable except during Informatics working hours...which wasn't often. Weekend work was out. Some one at Informatics had to access my site so I could work on it. I also paid them waaayyy too much for it. Their whole approach to webhosting was three years behind the times and totally unacceptable so I switched. My domain name, contrary to my belief, wasn't even registered in my name. You better run a check on yours and see who holds the registration. Of course, they don't tell you these things up front.

MetaPros was recommended to me by Susan Howell, who with husband John, construct all the Blue Skyway websites. It's also where the Kansas Sampler Foundation website, constructed by the Howells, is hosted. These are top rung sites, so I figured it had to be a good place to go.

MetaPros handles all those things for me. They have a delightful guy, whose name is Brad, who deals with me with patience and understanding as if I were his mom. I love doing business with these people...or Brad, as it were. He may be their only employee for all I know, but he does have a wife who hovers, so I learned. She may work there too. Or he may run the whole operation out of the corner of his bedroom with the help of six kids. I donno. It doesn't matter, but whatever he's doing, he's doing it right.

I look forward to many happy years to come with Brad, his wife, their six kids, five dogs and cats, two ferrets, a canary and MetaPros. Thanks, Brad!