what the hell does “cake” mean?
Yay Dreamhost*! They posted an “exposé” of a hosting review site that approached them about buying a spot on their ostensibly unbiased list of highly-rated hosting companies. It’s stuff like this** that makes me a loyal customer. (And I just paid my yearly fee yesterday, so I was just thinking about how much value I get for my cash.)
The sales guy from the hosting review site:
1. The lowest I could go for the #10 spot is $3200, and that’s only because you would be paying up front for the spot. I know you are trying to keep your cost per acquisition down, but we drive a lot sales to our home page web hosts and it costs us a lot of ‘cake’ to do it.
I so appreciate that DH’s success hasn’t changed its real-folks attitude. The (pseudo-)monthly newsletters are still irreverent and bizarre and I love that, even if I don’t read them. It’s the principle of the thing.
** I mean, among other spiffiness like officially adding support for svn just a couple of weeks after I requested it. (Not that I was the only one, of course, but they have this whole “vote for you next favorite feature” board thing and really do try to implement user requests.)
May 6th, 2006 at 8:28 am
I think they’re awesome. And whenever I read someone else saying “use this host they’re great and cheap and whatever blah blah” and I go check them out, invariably DH is still greater and cheaper and more whatever blah blah.