Hastings Research is not in the hosting business. So as the Web grew, we learned about hosting services the hard way -- by outsourcing our web site builds to dozens of different hosting services. Why dozens? Because the level of service among web hosts is so bad as to be unbelievable. Servers that go down for hours at at time, unanswered emails, untrained tech support, crashes that wipe your data, no backups, buggy Perl interpreters ... all this and more is standard in the hosting industry.

A bonus of subcontracting work to Hastings is that you get to skip over this messy and expensive learning curve. As a client, we will point you to the best hosting services. If we are building a full site for you, we'll get it hosted on the right servers, plugged straight into the Internet backbone. And we can teach your people to configure and manage the host's servers.