MySQL Databases

[allan]

This is interesting (to me at least :)):

http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/net032403.cfm

Offering MySQL is obviously a good thing -- but since so many other hosting companies now offer it, is it a good idea to advertise the fact that you are slow to offer it?

[suppleSupport]

Hrmmm...

I think that the people who use Netfirms are either

1- looking for free hosting and would therefore take anything doled out to them. They'd go with netfirms despite the fact that it's waaaaaaay behind other hosts.

2- people who don't know much about hosting and what is actually widely available. It's like the thousands of people who still register $35 domains at netsol.

[Jan]

elevation, netfirms have paid hosting too ;)

[Chicken]

I think elevation meant that since they offer free hosting, and no doubt many use them for free hosting, it is a big whooopie (to errr... them and their customers) when they add paid features and paid plans. Somewhat similar to people who sign up with their ISP for webhosting and pay $19.95/mo. for 10MB and 1GB of transfer, and the ISP ups it to 15MB of space. Clients are psyched that they get another 5MB ;)

[suppleSupport]

Yeah what Chicken said :)