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Warren Seen

More options Jul 30 2007, 2:09 am

From: Warren Seen <warren.s...@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:09:51 +1000

Local: Mon, Jul 30 2007 2:09 am

Subject: Re: [rails-business] Re: Explaining to existing customers why you are developing with Rails now instead of .NET

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On 30/07/2007, at 2:28 PM, Robby Russell wrote:

> On Jul 29, 2007, at 8:41 PM, Warren Seen wrote:

>> . While it might seem like quibbling over a few bucks
>> to us, who am I to tell a client how to control their costs?

> You're the consultant that they hired to give them good advice. As
> long as they are made aware of the pros/cons before they make their
> decision.

Yes, I used "tell" in the sense of dictating to them, rather than
advising them :-) I will advise against really cheap and crappy
hosting until I'm blue in the face, but it's ultimately their
decision, and their chequebook/credit card. There are always going to
be clients who are happy to suffer along with cheap hosting, and
spend the other $80/month elsewhere, they can't justify spending the
same amount on hosting as a project with 5 or 10 times the budget
would, because to them, it's a significant ongoing cost in proportion
to their budget. It's unfortunate, but that's the reality in which I
have to operate :-)

> When it comes to our clients, we have a lot of business-related
> discussions about their growth plan, because I want to make sure that
> when we finish our job, that they're in good position.

> For example, I would probably beg a client to reconsider hosting
> anywhere where they would be running an application that we built
> through apache + mod_fcgi. ;-)

Been there, done that - most listen, but like I said, people who make
decisions like this ultimately get burnt, and learn that it's worth
spending that bit more on their hosting. :-) I still think there's a
demand for small- and micro-biz hosting needs that is under-served,
between the cheap and nasty tacked-on $10/month stuff, and what you
guys are doing at Planet Argon. Whether there's a business case for
it from a hosting perspective, I can't say.

Sorry for pulling this discussion off topic...

Cheers,

Warren

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