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  1. Thank you, Scott. I plan to become a customer as soon as I get my website assembled. I have a project for a customer that I need to get done before I can focus strictly on website construction but I'm hopeful I can get the site put together before Thanksgiving.
  2. Sorry - another question. Silverlght is an MS technology. But it's "client-side", yes? I.e. the litespeed OS has no impact on my ability to use Silverlight should I opt to do so? Sorry for all the questions, but seriously, you're looking like the best hosting service I've come across after literally researching dozens and doing in-depth research on about half-a-dozen.
  3. Oh, (just thought of this) can one purchase "overage insurance"? Example, let's say that traffic is approaching 70% of capacity but fluctuations have been substantial. Could one prepay some certain amount of overages just in case which would cover should I be out of town or otherwise "off the grid" and it take me a day or three to connect in to my e-mail? Or, alternatively, can one pre-authorize a service-level upgrade should it become apparent that this is the appropriate long-term solution? Example: site is approaching an overage situation for the nth month, but this time you can't reach me. Rather than suspend service, the account is automatically upgraded since I have let you know in advance that this is okay? [You're probably right and I'm probably overthinking this, but as you can see, I tend to do a lot of homework when selecting a vendor for a mission-critical business process.]
  4. Thank you, Mike. OK - just so I'm clear - "litespeed" is unix or linux or something (again - not windows) and ASP & ASP.NET are indeed Windows-based, so I need to avoid them. Correct? Still fuzzy on how big of a deal it is to upgrade. Does the site then need to be ported to a different server and so it does involve some sort of action and work on your side? Or is it just a case of adjusting some parameters, i.e. no biggie?
  5. Hi, I have six questions. HTML vs ASP and your operating system? I will be using Expression Web as my web authoring tool. EW can easily handly HTML & ASP. If I'm understanding my research correctly you are using litespeed which is some flavor of unix or unix-based or well basically, it ain't windows. If I go with MDD, can I use ASP / ASP.NET pages? I just want to know because if I can't use ASP-anything it's better to know before I develop my website and I'll stick to other languages. Personal vs. Business? Most web hosting companies I've looked at make a distinction between business class users and personal users. I don't see that here. Is the assumption simply that most of your client base is one or the other? Or is it really a case where it just doesn't matter? e-mail / spam? Other hosting companies list specific anti-spam technologies that they employ like SpamAssasin, Boxtrapper, etc. I don't see specific reference to that. What protections do you offer to keep the *%$^*@! spammers at bay? Or is it a common expectation that the customer implement their own e-mail spam filtering? Bandwidth? Other hosts claim "unlimited" - BUT they say that if "CPU/Memory usage" gets out of line then they'll raise a fuss. MDD appears to focus on the bandwidth, though I do see a reference to CPU/Memory usage in your TOS document. How do I know if I'm sneaking up on my bandwidth ceiling or that my site has turned into a CPU or Memory pig? [i told you I was a newbie, maybe this is part of a standard reporting package???] e-Commerce? As I understand e-Commerce and/or "secure certificates" (whatever that means) require a static IP address. Given that all of your packages indicate that they are e-Commerce-ready, if this is true, then may I assume that all packages include a fixed IP address? Upgrade paths available? Your (?) popup on bandwidth gives a rough estimate of 1 GB of bandwith equal to roughly 100K hits, i.e. more or less 10 KB per hit i.e. the low package should cover roughly 833K hits per day. Even if the 10 KB per hit is off by an order of magnitude, then we'd be inside the fences even for +80K pages per day. So I'm assuming the 250 GB bandwidth should cover me for while. Starting out I may have fairly light traffic. But if I do this right I could drive up to 5K and maybe, in a year or two 10-20K pages views per day. But let's say that my success exceeds all expectations, or the CPU/memory thing ends up being an issue, how hard is upgrading from one account type to another?
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