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Old 08-29-2011, 02:39 PM  
ThunderBalls
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Originally Posted by Babaganoosh View Post
Back in the days before hosts would suck off a customer just to get his business, customers were expected to possess a certain level of knowledge and competence. How long will it be before hosts are willing to build a site and manage it for their customers too?

When I started in this business, hosts wouldn't do most of what customers expect these days. Script installations? Nope. Migrating sites? No way. Chmod some files for you? Hah!


No doubt. I was just thinking last night how much fun it used to be before cpanel getting a new dedicated server and spending days manually installing and configuring everything from sendmail to apache with zero help from the host.
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