You would think that web hosting would be the easiest of tech businesses to do correctly. Set up the servers, make sure the power stays on, and voila! So why is getting reliable web hosting so difficult? Why are web hosting techs either clueless or condescending? Why do hold times reach past the half-hour mark? Is this so hard? (I hope my hosting company isn’t reading this, or this may be my last post.) I sincerely hope that persistent web connections become the norm, so we can all set up little bulletproof servers and be done with the whole business.
On a related topic, Blogger is great, but Dave Winer (also see previous post) is right. Centralized web services depending on giant servers humming away flawlessly is a crappy model for changing the world. Microsoft’s .NET is the latest stab at this bad idea. I’m starting to feel like an NRA member with “the law” beating down my door to take my gun (read: desktop computer) away, telling me, “The police (read: Microsoft) are the only people who need guns(computers). Remain calm.” I guess Charlton Heston and I have something in common, after all.