19 Jun
2018
19 Jun
'18
7:07 p.m.
Andy said:
One thing that I initially found quite shocking — but
after ~11
years I have come to terms with — is that mostly customers ignore me
unless they are forced to respond. So they won't provide details of
their business, and they won't respond to questions about whether
the contract is with them personally or with an incorporated entity.
Organising an event a couple of years ago, I was amused that a venue would
extend five figure credit to us if we were a company, but not if we
weren't. For some reason, chasing money owed from a legally separate entity
where they couldn't go after us personally was seen as better than going
after three or four individuals each jointly and separately liable for the
lot.
If you don't know who we / they are, why are you extending us this amount
of credit with no background of always paying it?
A lot of people are surprised that a base spec VPS can
actually push
about 80Mbp/sec. Which is about 25 terabytes per 30 days. In each
direction.
I worked out that they must have done at least 15 one way or another.
Ian