You know which one I'm talking about. I can list 20 hosts that use this theme and I don't know why? Can someone explain to me what is so appealing about this theme?
I cut out the top menu to hide the logo, but this is the one I'm talking about. Theres also another one very similar to it that everyone uses
I don't know why everyone is into this, but why is everyone so concerned about a template? Some companies just don't have that extra few hundred to get a custom template designed.
As a web designer I may be a bit biased here... but if a host, which is an web business, isn't stable enough to invest in a good website, why should a customer consider them stable enough to invest their time and money into?
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Web designer and developer, @ConnorPeet. Opinions and views are solely my own.
As a web designer I may be a bit biased here... but if a host, which is an web business, isn't stable enough to invest in a good website, why should a customer consider them stable enough to invest their time and money into?
The host's decision whether or not to make their own / buy their own website doesn't directly correlate to the stability of such a company. Its like comparing RamNode and DigitalOcean together due to their billing systems; RamNode uses WHMCS, the latter a custom solution - yet there is no such comparison between stability. In fact, RamNode has been around longer and is debatably a more stable company.
There is no such comparison to be made.
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The host's decision whether or not to make their own / buy their own website doesn't directly correlate to the stability of such a company. Its like comparing RamNode and DigitalOcean together due to their billing systems; RamNode uses WHMCS, the latter a custom solution - yet there is no such comparison between stability. In fact, RamNode has been around longer and is debatably a more stable company.
There is no such comparison to be made.
That is a bit of a false analogy fallacy. Both RamNode and DigitalOcean use two great solutions - one an in-house system, and one a globally recognized billing solution. Both are good and widely accepted from the smallest to the largest hosts in the world. There is no one here saying that a custom-made billing system is inheritly superior to a custom one; designing is totally different from the kind of data-heavy and secure development that has to be done at that level. You are right: there is not such comparison to be made.
Hosts who do "own/buy their own website" do tend to be more stable, because they have the resources needed to stand out from the crowd. Look at DigitalOcean, RamNode, McProHosting. I cannot think of any large and stable host that does not use a theme designed particularly for that site. There is certainly no set-in-stone correlation that having a custom site = instant stability, but I think you will be hard pressed to find any large and stable host that uses a stock website theme.
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Web designer and developer, @ConnorPeet. Opinions and views are solely my own.
I cut out the top menu to hide the logo, but this is the one I'm talking about. Theres also another one very similar to it that everyone uses
http://gyazo.com/e60480e8f89e0d953e7292f6edb0beab
I don't claim that my site is perfect; I still have some work to do but no one seems to be original these days.
-Connor
Built in WHMCS functionality.
That's a bold statement.
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There is no such comparison to be made.
That is a bit of a false analogy fallacy. Both RamNode and DigitalOcean use two great solutions - one an in-house system, and one a globally recognized billing solution. Both are good and widely accepted from the smallest to the largest hosts in the world. There is no one here saying that a custom-made billing system is inheritly superior to a custom one; designing is totally different from the kind of data-heavy and secure development that has to be done at that level. You are right: there is not such comparison to be made.
Hosts who do "own/buy their own website" do tend to be more stable, because they have the resources needed to stand out from the crowd. Look at DigitalOcean, RamNode, McProHosting. I cannot think of any large and stable host that does not use a theme designed particularly for that site. There is certainly no set-in-stone correlation that having a custom site = instant stability, but I think you will be hard pressed to find any large and stable host that uses a stock website theme.