Is DASP owned by Bill Gates..?!

Hello there,

Just wondering, is DASP owned by Microsoft or Bill Gates? Because I read alot of positive reviews and articles arround the microsoft.com website, yet, DASP is not even mentioned in the top 10 best ASP.NET/Windows shared hosting reviews/websites.

Don't get me wrong. I LOVE DASP. I really do. I have been a customer here for alomost 3 years and I really enjoyed the service.

But its just strange idea! Why other shared hosting providers offer (at leat as they claims) more disk-space/data transfer (sometimes UNLIMITED) for much lower prices ($4-7/mo), whereas DASP offer only 1GDB disk space and 80GDB bandwidth and yet higher price, plus hidden charges (add-ons)?

Hope you respond.
Thanks

 

How are the add-on charges hidden, exactly?

If we aren't mentioned in "top whatever" sites it's likely because those sites are either A) run by other hosts (way more common than you might imagine), or B) run by someone who wants us to pay a "fee" to be listed, which we will not do. Perhaps you trust asp.NET Pro magazine (now DevProConnections)? For the past six years their readers have voted us best asp.NET host. That isn't an award you can buy or somehow game with thousands of fake votes.

As for "only" 1 gig of storage and 80 gigs of bandwidth, we choose not to participate in a "race to the bottom of the barrel" and make everything "unlimited" in order to compete with companies that are not in our class either in size or service. That's all smoke and mirrors anyway, because the fact is a very, very small percentage of sites use those kinds of resources. Every host knows that, and every host knows that they can say anything, but the real world usage is very predictable and consistent. If I know you can only eat a few slices of my pizza I can offer UNLIMITED PIZZA! every day and just price it accordingly. I don't care if a family of giants comes in from the hills every week and eats a dozen pizzas. It all averages out. They are meaningless really, those huge resource offers.

And yes, Bill Gates owns DiscountASP.NET. He's here every week for a staff meeting, after which a few of us take him to lunch and get him extremely drunk (it only takes two two beers, and he doesn't even finish those), so we can cheat him at cards and take a few thousand dollars from him. Great guy, though. I'll tell him Sameer says 'hi.'

 

Great reply

I'm new here but let me say mjp,

That could be one of the best replies I have seen in some time. Do me a favor. Next week when you guys take Bill to lunch, buy him a shot of Jim Beam from me.

P.S. His tell on a bad hand is he starts yelling and threatens to take back stock bonuses. But keep that on the down low.

 

Thanks.

Unfortunately, Bill tips over if he even smells whiskey, so the shot is out of the question. It took us three years to get him to try a beer. He usually only drinks a certain brand of wine that he has flown in monthly from Latvia. Who knew, right?

I said to him once, "I didn't even know they made wine in Lativa," and he said, "Well, it's interesting - they didn't. But I bought a Latvian cannery in order to produce salty sardines to sell in Eastern Europe, and one day they called me and said that some grapes had fallen into the machinery and they had to suspend sardine production for a few weeks while new parts were made by the village blacksmith. Somehow the grapes that were stuck in the machine fermented and one of the cannery workers saoked up the results with a rag and sent them to me in a Mason jar. It was spectacular! The finest wine I've ever tasted! So I ordered them to suspend sardine production permanently and produce only the wine. It's very expensive because the cannery machinery has to be intentionally broken to re-create the atmosphere that first produced the wine, so what we do is repair the machinery, then break it again every few weeks. It's tedious work, but my people are well paid in stock options. The blacksmith tried to raise his prices to make the new parts, so I bought him. Now he just makes machine parts for my winery and updates my Facebook page. Soon the sardine aftertaste will be gone completely and we'll have a wine that is ready for market."

Those are the kind of answers he gives. You just have to stand there and listen to them as if you are interested in what he's saying, so it's no picnic working for the guy, I'm not going to lie.