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Posted by D Sherman [72.47.153.24] on Friday, May 04, 2012 at 14:38:35 :
In Reply to: Re: Notice posted by Clint Dixon [216.248.73.1] on Friday, May 04, 2012 at 12:26:07 :
Now that you can get good cheap email and web hosting from lots of sites, and free email and hosting from some, if an ISP can just focus on giving you an internet connection and nothing else, that might be simpler for them and cheaper for you.
Here we have "Suddenlink" cable, and they keep advertising that they include "plenty of" web space and email accounts, but I really wonder how many customers use it. You can get free email and webspace at GoDaddy with any domain name registration, which is only about $11/year, and with that you get your own domain name that never changes no matter who your ISP is.
If a small ISP wants to do the web and email hosting themselves, they then need server space and a sysadmin to run it, or they need to contract it from one of the "could" outfits. The customers most likely to use it are those who are the least tech savvy and don't have their own domain name and server space. Those are exactly the people who will be calling a lot with tech support questions.
All in all, I think the ISPs would all be wise to back away from hosting and just stick to connecting, and then make that connection faster, more reliable, and cheaper.