Comments on: Digiweb Offers Free Hosting & a Free Domain http://ambrand.com/2007/04/19/digiweb-offers-free-hosting-a-free-domain/ The musings of a team of 20 something friends in Cork, Ireland Fri, 18 May 2012 14:26:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Digiweb hosting sucks at Ambrand.com http://ambrand.com/2007/04/19/digiweb-offers-free-hosting-a-free-domain/#comment-13468 Digiweb hosting sucks at Ambrand.com Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:14:04 +0000 http://ambrand.com/2007/04/19/digiweb-offers-free-hosting-a-free-domain/#comment-13468 [...] the start of last week I was 99% ready to give my business to Digiweb, whom I previously admired. But now I wouldn’t dream of it. So what happened in the last [...] […] the start of last week I was 99% ready to give my business to Digiweb, whom I previously admired. But now I wouldn’t dream of it. So what happened in the last […]

]]> By: admin http://ambrand.com/2007/04/19/digiweb-offers-free-hosting-a-free-domain/#comment-10987 admin Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:40:51 +0000 http://ambrand.com/2007/04/19/digiweb-offers-free-hosting-a-free-domain/#comment-10987 >We’re not going to play hardball that way! I'm sure that is your idea, but I've seen it some many times, beware of being involved in a larger and larger organisation, and following the path of every small to large organisation I've dealth with certain things will start happening, first the support dept turns into a blackhole if a ticket is not answerable from and FAQ is is ignored, second then the accounts dept starts charging credit cards with random amounts at random times, third another company doing exactly what you do appears and people move to it, finally a legal dept or a commission driven outsourced ambulance chaser firm of solicitors starts to hound the people who paid by bank draft/EFT for the false outstanding amounts, of course this is the worse case scanario and hopefully it can be avoided >We’re not going to play hardball that way!
I’m sure that is your idea, but I’ve seen it some many times, beware of being involved in a larger and larger organisation, and following the path of every small to large organisation I’ve dealth with certain things will start happening, first the support dept turns into a blackhole if a ticket is not answerable from and FAQ is is ignored, second then the accounts dept starts charging credit cards with random amounts at random times, third another company doing exactly what you do appears and people move to it, finally a legal dept or a commission driven outsourced ambulance chaser firm of solicitors starts to hound the people who paid by bank draft/EFT for the false outstanding amounts, of course this is the worse case scanario and hopefully it can be avoided

]]> By: Dan King http://ambrand.com/2007/04/19/digiweb-offers-free-hosting-a-free-domain/#comment-10957 Dan King Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:01:42 +0000 http://ambrand.com/2007/04/19/digiweb-offers-free-hosting-a-free-domain/#comment-10957 Actually, after a year, we're happy for people to keep their domains (and pay for them in the usual way) or transfer them away if they want. We're not going to play hardball that way! Ideally, we'd prefer it if they stayed with us, and the onus is on us to make sure that we do a good enough job that they'll want to stay :) Actually, after a year, we’re happy for people to keep their domains (and pay for them in the usual way) or transfer them away if they want. We’re not going to play hardball that way!

Ideally, we’d prefer it if they stayed with us, and the onus is on us to make sure that we do a good enough job that they’ll want to stay :)

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