Okay… truth be told I can’t help but think of Darth Vader telling Luke Skywalker, “You don’t know the power of the Dark Side.” I mean for a long, long time now I’ve thought of Network Solutions as being the “Dark Side.” They’re the big-bad-corporate of the internet. But, that all being said, we are seriously loving them as our new hosting provider!
We were sort of “forced” to switch because of some horrible down time that our old servers experienced last weekend. Our sites were down for around 5 days, if you hadn’t noticed, and so, Wednesday we decided, “Enough is enough,” and moved our stuff to Network Solutions.
It was our good friend Stephen Parks that suggested them to me. And, when he first suggested it I admittedly made some remark that, in turn, made Stephen ask me, “What’s wrong with Network Solutions?” “They’re the ‘Wal-Mart’ of the internet,” I replied. “Well,” said Stephen, “I’ve never known of Wal-Mart having such good customer support or such high customer reviews.”
He asked me to give them give them a call just to see… and it wasn’t within 3 minutes of being on the phone with them that I knew we were going to be moving our sites over.
Now it’s been 4 days, and I can’t say enough good things about them. We are still very, very sad to have had to leave CWH, whom I had been with for almost 10 years, but it was obviously time… and now I’m not worried that our site may be down for 5 days again… let alone 1 day… let alone 1 hour.
So… that’s the very short (and much less stressful) story of our move to Network Solutions. And, if they are the “Dark Side” (which I would seriously argue against now) then Darth was right… you don’t know the power!
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
