Was that a fun month, or what? Gulfcoast On-Line has had a tremendous first month of operation! As we enter our second month we want to keep the Gulfcoast of Mississippi aware of new developments in the Internet Community.
We're going to stop quoting the price of the other local Internet Service Providers. We don't want to be in a position of having to print disclaimers or corrections as access prices continue to fluctuate. We do want to point out that at least one ISP lowered their unlimited access price 40% after we opened shop. We'd like to think we might have influenced that decision, even if only a little.
Prices for unlimited Internet Access should continue to drop in the coming months -- but that's not the subject of this Newsletter. Let's talk Web Presence.
The time is rapidly approaching when everyone on the planet will have their own Web page. Every business. Every Church. Perhaps even every soccer team. You could pay to have someone maintain this information for you -- you could even pay too much. OR you could simply maintain your own web pages as part of your unlimited Internet Access from your favorite Full Service Provider. Choose one that places no commercial restriction on the content of user Web pages, then put your business on the World Wide Web. Today!
So with every business rushing to obtain Web Presence at the most affordable price, what is going to differentiate the ISPs that offer affordable Web presence? One important factor is Speed! Regardless of what you may have heard, having a full T1 connection to an Internet backbone is a big deal. Does your ISP have a full T1 connection to the Internet? Is it even a fractional T1? Is it even a third of a T1? Have they told you? Do you care? Of course you do! What good is having a flashy Web page if it loads too slowly to keep the attention of the potential customer? They're going to grow tired, click the STOP button and then move on -- and you're going to lose a potential customer. We'll say this one time: No ISP on the Mississippi Gulfcoast has a faster Network connection than Gulfcoast On-Line Development. GOLD. Count on it.
Another source of browser fatigue is a slow Web server. Of course, a slow web server sometimes means a popular Web server, as the entire World may be coming through to browse the online information. It could also mean that the computer being used as the Web server is not quite up to snuff. Ask your provider if their Web server machine is a 133 Mhz Pentium with 64 Megs of RAM.
Some ISPs discover the need to upgrade their Network connection to a full T1 and then to upgrade their Web server to a P5/133. That's the initial configuration of Gulfcoast On-Line Development.
When you decide that your business needs more than a URL of the form
http://www.goldinc.com/~business, the next step is to register
your own virtual domain, thereby creating a URL of the form
http://www.business.com
Call around for quotes, then call Gulfcoast On-Line
Development (601-864-2423) for a virtual domain for only $20 above your usual
$30 per month unlimited access. That's right: 5 Megs of
storage on our lightning fast Web Server, your own domain name,
unlimited part-time dialup access to maintain your pages -- all
for just $50 dollars per month. You pay the registration fee to the InterNIC,
and a one-time setup fee to Gulfcoast On-Line Development, Inc.
Interested?
When you decide that you need more than a part-time unlimited V.34 dialup connection, the next step is to purchase a dedicated line. Call around for quotes, then call Gulfcoast On-Line Development (again, 601-864-2423) for a dedicated V.34 connection for only $160 per month. There's also a one-time setup fee. There's going to be a rush, so you'd better sign up now!
Call us today for more information or to request an application (Voice/Fax 601-864-2423) or send questions and comments to newsletter@goldinc.com