Well, once I had an advertiser stiff me for a little under 2K. This is back in the day when 2K would make or break the business. Needless to say, I felt devastated. I went on to find another advertiser in the same sector, a public company trading at a little over 50 cents a share, developed an excellent relationship with them, they ended up paying me double the bounty the previous advertiser was paying, and I bought tons of their stock and it rose from 58 cents all the way up to $15 a share, and we're still partners to this very day. That so called, "Bad" experience catapulted my business into another stratosphere. That's why today, I embrace all challenges and try to find the silver lining in all clouds of doubt.

The Glass is Half Full.

I have the motto of.

never waste time regretting the past it can not be altered, and no experience in life is wasted, no matter how painful, provided we learn from it.

Helps me to get things straight, evaluate a set back and move on.

I totally agree with both of you, I think it's essential to have this mindset especially when you are running your own business. Only recently have I started my company and become an online business, this is difficult and trying to say the least but also very rewarding because every accomplishment is my own and therefore is sweeter then had I been doing it for someone else.

I must say, I've been making websites since I was 15, that doesn't mean I'm very good at it but there are times when I feel a little lost as to what I need to do to generate the traffic and the excitement about my product. For the better part of 10 years I've been learning about ecommerce and looking on, wishing I was a part of the game but now that I am, having come here and read valuable information and talked to people like yourselves, I've learnt more in the past month about business online then I did the year before that.

It's very exciting for me and I know I have a viable business because I have been able to sell my product but honestly, I appreciate any advice you guys give me because there is so much I still don't know and I'm eager to learn!

I think my worst nighware was leasing some servers from theplanet.com , I had a similar experience to the one Duke is having with his current hosting company. You want to avoid the planet at all cost if you ever need dedicated servers

Temi, thanks for let know this to us. By the way can you tell us a little bit about the nightmare call ThePlanet ?

Ovi

Do alot of ppl have problems with theplanet.com's dedicated servers?

I never even heard of them to be perfectly honest.

I will say, stay away from Cancaca.com no matter how desperate you are. Not only have they been the worst experience I've had online, they've also provided the worst purchasing/customer support experience I've had in my entire lifetime and I'm now 37 years old. Yes they are that bad!

Oh dear. I'll make sure I avoid them like the plague then...

Originally Posted by temi

I think my worst nighware was leasing some servers from theplanet.com , I had a similar experience to the one Duke is having with his current hosting company. You want to avoid the planet at all cost if you ever need dedicated servers

Can you go into more detail? I'm just interested because I've only heard good reviews about them on forums and I know 2 people who host with Server Matrix their "non managed" sister company.