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buyvm and frantech, why 2 names for 1 great company?
I love the CP, works great. The servers appear to be snappy as can be also. Much faster then the SJ one I had in 2011. I got one of the e3 2GB vps's and WOW. Its killing my ramnode server which I thought was impossible to do honestly. Only have 1 question....
Why 2 names and 2 sites?
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Frantech is the main brand, then they have other brands such as BuyVM and BuyShared. Let's tag @Francisco to answer better than me.
I guess that would make sense. BuyVM looks so slick and then im at frantech whm which looks less slick but still nice, I am a curious person. This is clearly the most important thing I have today on my brain LOL.
Most likely just much easier to manage multiple brands doing different things under a parent company.
It was spawned because @Francisco was drunk one night
Because two is usually better than one.
It's not uncommon, brands may be to target specific markets.
BuyShared, a Frantech company.
Frantech used to be a separate IT Consulting/Management company that offered managed hosting. They scrapped that brand and changed to strictly self-managed services.
THIS MAN HAS OUR DATA.
THIS MAN HAS MY DEBIT CARD NUMBER
You forgot about BuyShared..
And most people here uses this guy's nodes for production
This man knows what he is doing and capable of managing servers. At least when he is sober.
Kinda. Frantech started as a web development company in Victoria but I got shafted on multiple contracts where customers didn't pay. There was a lot of people wanting me to start offering hosting in a community I helped maintain so I investing most of my life savings to get that going.
A few clusterfuck later in Portland and such we ended up in Fremont. At this point we were kinda bored of doing the gameservers and I had just recently been gifted the buyvm domain. We decided we would do a market testbed to see what we could do in the unmanaged market.
I put a website together in a weekend and posted ads on WHT and LEB. Things took off and we pretty much right away stopped accepting new orders on the gameservers side of things.
As for why e still split billing off, we do have buyshared going strong and people really wanted things kept in a single billing panel. Whmcs doesn't support multi branding and we haven't had a large enough development window to replace it so we haven't bothered.
I'm glad you like the new plans
let me know if you got any feedback to improve hem further.
Francisco
I hear ya on webdesign being a headache, no matter how good its going its always a PITA! I idled my webdesign company Jan1 this year and started a personal project thats doing good.
The only think so far I see is that I would love to get those $7 2GB KVM nodes instead of OpenVZ in all locations! Im sure that takes time but count me excited. I have been a heavy vps user for the past few years and this outdoes ramnode. Love them also but your CP and price.... Im moving things at this point.