Why do people credit their web host?
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- tenpointtwo
I've always wondered why people put up a badge or credit their web host. Just out of gratitude? Do they get residuals or some kind of discount on hosting?
Seems to be pretty prevalent, especially with MediaTemple customers. Is it just bragging?
- bukka0
with Dreamhost, you get paid if people sign up under you or your promo codes...
- ethanfink0
It makes no sense to me. To feel special maybe.
- kalkal0
I've generally only noticed this with MT and it seems to be snobbery to me..
- +1mg33
- +3doesnotexist
- Seems like you are making random statements with no supporting evidence.lifterBARON
- ethanfink0
Haha I pay more for crappy service...
http://www.google.com/search?q=m…
- airey0
some people are trying to get referral discounts as the logo is usually placed with account specific code.
- airey0
although it is often simple brand showboating is guess. much like a tshirt with Nike across the front. it's the geek variant of brand sales.
- sureshot0
discounts.
- ********0
http://www.webfaction.com/?affil…
^ click here and buy stuff.
- VectorMasked0
It's like going with something like "Site build with a mac"
ridiculous.
- VectorMasked0
or...
"ass wiped in-house 11 times during the production of the site"
- fisted 11 times during completion™airey
- can i borrow that one?VectorMasked
- go son.airey
- airey0
funnily enough, i just started rereading douglas adams first 'dirk gently' book and he has a paragraph detailing the mac and software used in it's creations. he was a mac evangelist of the highest order. funny how that was a common(ish) thing 20 years ago. computers were such a novelty then. it's a shame he's gone.
- ********0
you people ripped my head off when i dared to breach this topic back in 2000. get bent.
- ********0
tribal bullshit
- its_only_me0
It was once fashionable to have MT logo on your site.
- is it because the logo is decent?monospaced
- Is it?gramme
- Yeah it was like totally just cool...
Poop.lifterBARON
- theanomaly0
Nazarene that's against the law
- kgvs720
I put a link to mine that says my web host provider is carbon neutral. It looks kinda cheesy to put a referral banner in a website.
- ********0
i'm sponsored by apple, MT and redbull.
- lifterBARON0
Referral program douche bags. Read things here: http://mediatemple.net/
- gramme0
My new website will be 100% recycled, and 300% FSC certified. I will also have a 500 px-wide H&FJ logo across the top. They're sending my son to college simply because of my combined use of both Gotham and Mercury in the interface.
- yeah, i've been meaning to speak to you about mercury...********
- yeah, i've been meaning to speak to you about mercury...