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Originally Posted by foff667
I totally agree...I said from the start they shouldve just done something through cafepress...the profit margin wouldve been slimmer, but Ordering $1000 in hoodies or Calendars and then hoping to sell them in a couple of weeks or months time just isnt the smartest business decision in my opinion.
They brought up the quality of cafepress stuff...I bought an LS1tech shirt & hat ~3 years ago that I wear to this day that show very little wear...hat I think I lost at some point but was very good quality.
I've got a YEAR of hosting for ~$80 for my website with 1000gb of bandwidth...
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We avoided Cafepress from the beginning because of past quality issues that Tim and I had both experienced with their products. We made the decision that we did not want to potentially sacrifice the quality of our merchandise for the ease of ordering that Cafepress offers.
Bandwidth is of very little concern to us. Most hosting packages that are out there have more than enough to support three or four sites our size. Running a message forum with anywhere from 50-75+ members on at any given time uses a lot of system resources (both CPU and RAM), and using a host like the one that your website is on would cause the site to be shut down for over-utilizing system resources every other day. You may remember that happening to us more than once near the end of our initial two year contract with our first hosting company. We had more than outgrown a shared hosting solution, and needed to find either a dedicated server, or a virtual private server to meet the website's needs.
If you can find a host that offers either a dedicated server or a virtual private server, and gets quality reviews similar or better to our host (Knownhost) for less than ~$400 per year, please, by all means, let me know.
- Justin