[Robert Hafner]

At no point did I say that we only guarantee uptime during the season, I just commented that we are aware of how important it is to have websites running during the season.

I'm not here to argue over what hosting company is better than what, I'm here to offer a service to FIRST teams because I come from a FIRST team. With out discount, FIRST teams get hosting for only $3.75 cents a month, which includes unlimited email accounts and tools to help create your site. We also allow month-to-month payments, which if you want from the other provider you must pay an account setup fee of $30 (we have no set up fees) and pay higher prices a month. We also limit the amount of clients we put on a server, so there is none of the performance lag felt on overcrowded servers. While this does cost us more, because we need more servers for the same amount of clients, we don't feel it would be worth the performance cut simply to jam a few more clients on a server.

The point is, depending on what you want, you can go with either company. With Soluna Enterprises you get a company that knows first hand what being in a first team is about, and that is eager to help people on those teams. We are offering this to FIRST simply because we want to help, not out of some ulterior motive, and if you don't feel that its that helpful than free feel to go to whatever company you want. For those teams that decide they would like to try what we have to offer, just sign up for an account (and put in "usfirst" for the coupon code to get the discount) and try us out- if after the first month you decide its not worth it, then move on, we don't lock people in.

Regardless, I know that this Saturday the new game comes out, and I wish you all good luck in this upcoming season.