Elizabeth Schwartz <[email protected]> writes: > Just asking for a satisfied large corporate customer will knock a lot > of cheapo's out of the water...
Yes, and that is a great strategy if you want to spend more money. You are essentially putting a 'marketing acumin' test in there. not only does the provider need a large customer, they need to negotiate a deal with them whereby they can say they are a customer. Now, there are reasons to ask about capacity, if you need a lot, If you need 100 racks, realistically, I'm not goint to be very good for you. I could probably do it, but it'd be a struggle for me, there'd be delays, etc... so capacity does matter. But the logo on the page doesn't really tell you anything about capacity. It just means that they know someone or are good enough at negotiation to get permission to use the logo. in my case, I bet if I worked at it, I could get some large company to use me as SysAdmin training, or off-site monitoring or something else that didn't require much iron; and maybe even get a logo; but that still wouldn't mean I could field 100 racks in any reasonable period of time. I would argue that bashing cheap providers for being cheap is worse (that is, more self-destructive) than bashing microsoft for being microsoft. If you take price as an indicator of quality, you will find that there are many low-quality providers who are perfectly happy to charge you premium prices. -- Luke S. Crawford http://prgmr.com/xen/ - Hosting for the technically adept http://nostarch.com/xen.htm - We don't assume you are stupid. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
