lammert - 6:09 pm on Jul 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

There are millions of hosting companies ran by high school kids. They buy a reseller account with dad's credit card, and then obviosly they can't reboot the server, because they don't have access to that themselves.

One of the problems I faced recently. There happens to be a large new datacentre nearby, and rumours go that Google also uses this datacentre. I wanted to hire a dedicated box there, but found out that almost all hosting providers there had either a mobile telephone number as contact, or an address in the well known student area of that city.

I therefore decided to use one of the larger hosting providers on another location who have there own staff and access to the data centre where the servers are located.