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Re: MySQL 5

Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 4:56 pm
by Bill H
Okay, having retired from running my own business successfully for more than 25 years, I will bow to the superior business knowledge of the programmers here and concede that hosting companies are idiots. My question is, then, where are we small timers going to host our websites when they have all gone out of business.
if I were one of their customers and decided I wanted to try innoDB.
As my post said, this host offers servers with that engine and without. I would simply ask him to switch me to a server that had it, and he would still have me as a customer. How does that represent a "customer churn."?

If I have twenty servers and I arrange the systems on them and price the sales on them to maximize the profit that I make on each server, I simply cannot imagine how that represents a "poor business strategy." I am willing to assume that these multi-million dollar-per-year companies do actual studies, and do not simply make greedy guesses at the prices they charge or in deciding what services they will offer.

Re: MySQL 5

Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 11:25 pm
by matthijs
How many hosts actually don't support innoDb? I haven't come across one that doesn't, and I usually deal with the cheaper segment in the market ($2 - $20 / month)

Re: MySQL 5

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:05 am
by josh
There are lots of hosts who do not restrict you (innodb, ssh access), and still provide phenomenal support (I'm talking phone support with no hold times at 4am on xmas eve). The owner of this company answers his sales line personally. http://steadfast.net/services/shared.php Seems to have figured out to monetize it because I have been with him 4yrs. I started out paying that $2 a month and now am responsible for multiple of his dedicated server clients (I would have recommended them go elsewhere if he were in the business of nickel and diming). So while your guy is drooling over his spreadsheets my guy is helping his clients grow bigger so they can one day spend more than $2 per month ;-)

"An example of this growth and stability is Steadfast Networks' listing as an Inc 500 company, meaning it is one of the 500 fastest growing private companies in the US. "
http://www.inc.com/inc5000/2008/company ... =200803700

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"President and CEO Karl Zimmerman started the company as a hobby, but realized it was much more when he tapped into an underserved market " ... which means he found out the other hosts were not offering innodb :evil: just kidding

Re: MySQL 5

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 5:08 am
by magento_news
The hosting company did not offer the lower price for the non-InnoDB server that I'm using,
so the best choice still magento which uses InnoDB.