Re:GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting
by MatthewPhillips on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @08:49PM
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Don't take this the wrong way but $5/month for a single static site is crazy expensive. I understand wanting to have a sustainable business but for $5 you should give customers 20-30 sites IMO.
Re:GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting
by davidandgoliath on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @09:02PM
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Ha. But you're not paying $5 a month for a static site, you're paying for a sustainable business to be behind your website when things go awry.
$5 a month is cheap, too cheap in fact.
Re:GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting
by MatthewPhillips on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @09:34PM
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Yeah, I have to disagree. Hosting a static site costs the provider practically nothing. Apache or Nginx can chew through requests for static content like it's nothing. $5 is prohibitively expensive because static sites are often one-off projects that you don't want to have to worry about. If I'm paying $5 for each one then I would worry about it.
Re:GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting
by bobfunk on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @10:07PM
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You don't just get a static site though. We handle all the whole build process: minifying, bundling, image optimization, giving each asset a unique content based URL and pushing them all to Akamai.
BitBalloon also makes forms work without having to do any brackens programming (or fitting in an external form service and try to get it to look like part of your site).
There's lots more timesavers included as well, so if your time is with anything to you, those $60 for a year of hosting will pay for themselves.
Re:GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting
by patrickg_zill on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @10:36PM
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You are pricing in terms of cost. The provider is pricing in terms of value to the customer.
So far updates are done by just dragging the whole folder unto the site dashboard again. We'll figure out what files have changes and just upload those.
There's also a version history so people can always roll back changes or see how the site looked like before.