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Old 05-11-2008, 12:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Maximus View Post
Bigger and faster than you thought... Hell all he had to do was look at the stats on a regular basis... Seriously Blue there is no excuse for him not expecting the growth. OM is an online fan community and Taco was in this to make the site grow... everyone is.

Speaking from my experiences in dealing with business customers who needed bandwith internet access and overall communications systems... I can tell you the ones who gave me the most grief were the ones who did not plan for realistic growth. Part of my job was to encourage costomers to purchase telecomm services that would provide room for expansion in the future....

Taco reminds me of clients that called my office to order minimal services because they were afraid to spend for the future. Customers who called in to order regular ADSL services when they actually needed SDSL or SDSL costomers who needed a DS0 ( T ) or DS1 - DS3 ( T1 - T3 ) lines... I won't even get into the goofballs who refused to order proper phone service... companies that have 100 employees and they want regular POTS ( Plain old telephone service ) lines instead of lines that handle voice and data ( ISDN, CENTREX or IP Centrex ) lines

The bottom line with my customers was always price... they would sell out their entire business over an increase of $1200.00 then call back 3 months later to tell me to provision the better service... sheer lunacy! I guess my rant stems from the fact that Taco has one of the largest sites for donkey fans and he's doing them a dis-service by not staying on top of his upgrades etc... just like my former clients!
I know for a fact that TJ had much more modest expectations for the Mane... he was stunned and amazed at the way it had grown even back in '02 or '03 when we first met (face-to-face). It's kinda weird... to some Broncos forums, 'Maners are viewed as snobbish or "elitist"... yet most of the posters on those same forums head straight to the Mane for Broncos news. Some other Broncos boards have seemed... reluctant... to embrace 'Maners during this downtime; yet others have been incredibly hospitable.

All in all, I'm just hoping the new server is as good as it's been advertised to be... and I'm glad if the old server was going to crash, it did it during the offseason and not on opening weekend.
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