Recession: It’s hitting the web aswell
It breaks my heart when I see my mother get a letter from our realtor saying that our house is about to be taken away for the fifth time. We don’t pay any car bills, we don’t have a home phone number. The only payments we have are our house, insurance, and tv/internet. We actually got our cable cut off the other week, so we had to call to get that put back. We’re always in danger of losing power and water because we can never get our bills on time.
In my case, it’s hitting me pretty hard aswell. I can’t afford to pay my phone bill, my hosting packages, and screwups. I’m a good designer, but no one’s wanting to pay me the full dollar for my work. It’s the same thing with writing. No one is wanting to pay $75 for a good article these days, they want the work done for staggering prices.
My friend has a web hosting company, he loves it, but the costs of keeping it alive are putting him into more debt. He’s tried to sell it, and a teenager almost bought it, but he turned down the offer. I think that’s great, I wouldn’t trust teenagers to handle something like that, I could hardly do it at that age.
The problem is that so many people are offering $1-$5 dollars for hosting on huge servers. People would rather have that then pay $20 for a package. That, and people kinda know who they’ll go to for that sort of thing. The industry is inflated, but so is everything else on the internet right now. It’s one huge pile of spam and cheap stuff.
