1GB @ $30? Can't remember when we last saw this price point seriously. 2007?
1 GB RAM but only 10GB disk space (no mention of SSD), 500 GB transfer, and 100 Mbps port, no backups, and in an age of snapshots, auto scaling, object space, etc they're using SolusVM and offering far fewer features than the competition.
GoDaddy is $30 for 1GB but is managed and includes CPanel (plus 40GB storage and unlimited bandwidth, and backups). Hostgator is $40 but is semi-managed (plus 60GB disk, 1TB transfer, 2 IPs, and backups). I can't think of an unmanaged solution with comparable resources in that $30 price range.
Question is, who is their target customer? The two groups that would pay that much, small mom and pop businesses and enterprise customers, are unlikely to choose Crissic because they gravitate towards the familiar so the mom and pops will go to GoDaddy and Hostgator and enterprise customers will go to a cloud solution like AWS, a managed solution like Rackspace, or a VMWare solution like Peer1's Mission Critical Cloud.
My biggest question though has to do with the use of a Missouri LLC instead of the parent company (
TOS: "
Crissic Solutions, LLC agrees to furnish services",). Domain is registered to Quadranet but all of the customer agreements are with the Missouri LLC. My guess would be someone was too lazy to update the legal docs with the new owner's name but who knows. The bare bones TOS issues alone (Missouri LLC, no mention of venue/jurisdiction etc) would scare off most enterprise customers.
There is also the dishonesty factor which would come to light and scare away any potential enterprise customer when they did their due diligence and came across statements like this on the about us page:
Crissic has over 10 years of industry experience
Dustin needs to expand on that with details of the 10 years if he's going to use the full "10 years of industry experience" as a marketing tool:
"a fifteen year old who liked to brag about hacking his classmates and school teachers started a hosting company from his classroom called Crissic and then ran out of money, shut down, left customers stranded, and disappeared for four years only to come back and after a couple more years sell everything off and customers suffered once again...
A few kids pissed me off, so I deleted their work for their classes(they finally got smart and had a memory stick on them constantly HA). So they started questioning me. How did I find access to the student files, how did I know what I was doing, how did I know how to use Command Promt, how did I know this, how did I get around the firewall. It was rather stupid.
They basically locked my account down. I still got away with all the same crap, but they never realized it.
A teacher pissed me off, I figured out her password — it was the same as her login (lastname first initial). So her login name was bawdenj, so her pass was bawdenj. 2 days before the end of the term, I “accidently” deleted her files, grades, everything.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=709159&p=5220176#post5220176
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=871195
