Business: May 2007 Archives

We've been using Skytel for the last couple of years to handle all our voice traffic including our 1850 number. Unfortunately the level of service has been declining and is no longer reliable (Our 1850 number has been offline for the last two days!!) Can anyone suggest any alternatives?

One of my pet peeves is misleading advertising. In some cases it's a matter of reading the fine print. In other cases it's simply a matter of the advertiser "chancing their arm". At present this site, and several others I run, are displaying adds from a particular company that claim to offer "the best", "the cheapest" etc., etc. Of course they don't, but it does make you wonder about people's buying decisions. Are they really influenced by a company's own claims? Should companies sell themselves as being the "best" etc?

Kilkenny County Enterprise Board's blog is the latest addition to IrishBlogs.info. It's nice to see semi-states / official bodies getting online, even if they are using a free blog hosting solution. Maybe, once they're feeling comfortable, they'll move it over to either its own domain or make it part of their existing site...

Following on from a recent discussion on the Enterprise Ireland e-Business mailing list about hosting and domains I offered to draw up a comparison list. The list, which is available here, is of the top 10 or so companies as listed by WebHosting.info. The pricing listed is for the following items:

• IE domain registration
- there maybe a lower cost for a transfer, but this is ignored
• .com registration
• .co.uk registration
• .eu registration
• entry level hosting plan
- basically the cheapest on they offer

The list is split into those with servers in Ireland and those without. I may do another more detailed breakdown of these, but the work I did this weekend is just a starting point. EDIT: Actually including the link might help! EDIT 2: At Keith's suggestion the columns are now sortable and a bit of CSS magic makes this all the more obvious. Thanks to Keith for the code (and links)