About Technomonk / Dreamhost discount

Posted by Flib on March 30th, 2009 filed in Business, System Administration, Website

There are many people on the net who aren’t economical to have as our customers the way we currently work. They are after rock bottom prices and are willing to make sacrifices to achieve it. This isn’t the way we work.

Our priority is good customer service and transparency. We wont lie to you and if we feel something will suit the customer better we will often tell them so, even if it means we may lose a sale.

Its not about wringing every last pound out of the customer’s wallet, its about creating a real valuable relationship with our clients. We aren’t going to be the cheapest provider on the block, but we feel we are worth what we charge.

So what about the customers that are looking for cheap hosting?

Currently, we are pointing them to Dreamhost.

As providers go, we have been using Dreamhost along with other providers to suppliment our own infrastructure for a while.

There have been some outages, but for the cost and benefits we can live with needing to fail-over once in a while. (Once in three years on the servers we use)
Even with the best designed infrastructure in the world, failure is enevitable, so it needs to be designed to cope with failure, so this is no massive hardship.

Even so, we are happy to recommend Dreamhost for the budget users we can’t service ourselves.

You don’t even need to take our word for it since they offer a 97 day money back guarantee.

Further to that, if you use the following discount or promo code, you will get a $50 discount and a free lifetime dedicated IP.

The promo code is TECHNOMONKIP

So why would you want a dedicated IP?

Put simply, a dedicated IP gives you two major advantages. The first, it allows you to run an SSL website on the IP. If you combine that with a free SSL cert from someone like StartSSL, then you essentially have free secure hosting while you are a Dreamhost customer.

The second advantage is that it allows you to run an anonymous FTP server. This is very useful if you need to distribute files to end users. Perhaps you write software or need to supply updates to customers?

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