Something pretty funny happened to me today. I went to the Bluehost website, just because I have one of my Rails applications deployed there, and without doing much of a research (did not spend 4 seconds googling), using their online chat, I decided to ask Bluehost support team about their Java support.
Our dialogue was quite short, and very amusing (“first time sales” is me):
Blue Host Support: Welcome to our real-time sales chat. How can I help you today?
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION: hello
Blue Host Support: how can I help you today?
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION: hi Bluehost
can you guys host a Grails app?
Blue Host Support: what requirements does it have?
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION: what do you mean?
we have a couple of Grails apps and looking for hosting
Blue Host Support: what is grails?
a programming language I assume
what is it based on?
FIRST TIME SALES QUESTION: http://www.grails.org/
Groovy
Blue Host Support: looks like it is used with Java
we don't run Java
that isn't possible on our servers |
It is hard to hold your smile when one of the biggest hosting companies comes up with phrases like “What is Grails?” and “Java? That isn’t possible on our servers“. Still smiling…