Blizzard Computers

DB — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:38:05 +0000

Blizzard Computers started as a small town computer sales and service shop located in Ellijay, Georgia. In 1996 we started Bliznet web hosting and design services. Up until that time the only access to the Internet was AOL. Soon the Ellijay Telephone Company decided to become and Internet Service Provider (ISP). The telephone company asked for Blizzard Computer’s help to provide tech support for their subscribers. Providing Internet tech support allowed us to get on the fast track to understanding use, bandwidth, and configuration. We were providing support through the years of 14.4k modems through the evolution of 56k. We had to configure the old Trumpet Winsock client for many subscribers until the most common operating system included its own winsock and dialer. After a while we started testing new offerings like ISDN. While ISDN was popular Blizzard started offering their own Satellite Internet access but at the time it required a phone line for upload and was quite expensive. Finally cable and DSL arrived in our little town. As the ISP’s subscriber base grew we had to make a decision to stop providing Internet support except for our own clients. While this was tough decision we knew that it was going to grow into a tedious 24 hour per day support business. We did not want to lose focus on the long term goal of providing managed web hosting and design services. As our web design and hosting business grew we started reducing the amount of computer work we were accepting. In 2000 we made the decision to start migrating away from computer sales and service completely and we incorporated as Blizzard Digital. Blizzard Digital is now only providing web services, but we will maintain this blog to share our computer experiences from our personal use and day to day business operations.

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