Re: MySQL 5
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 4:56 pm
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 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.
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 were one of their customers and decided I wanted to try innoDB.
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.