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AOI Computer Services has been in business over 15 years. Established in 1989 as an Apple Macintosh Consulting Firm, AOI has grown and changed with the times. In 1994 we partnered with another company and began hosting our own web sites. By 1999 it had become apparent we had to make a choice. It had become too difficult to stop our production schedule each time a consulting customer had an emergency, and lets face it, anytime a customer has a computer problem, it is an emergency. A tough decision ... Do we continue as a Mac consulting firm or do we dedicate the company to a core focus of web hosting and development? Owner, Art Wheat says the thing that affected his decision the most was how customers would be affected. To continue doing things the way we were was not fair to our consulting customers who needed us at a moment's notice, nor was it fair for our web customers who expect us to turn work around in a reasonable amount of time. We also had to look at what was best for the company (a company can't help people if they are not profitable). We had to chose the web development and hosting and we have never looked back. As we grew in the mid 90's we learned quite a few practical applications that have in turn benefited so many of our customers. For example, while we don't like telling folks we got burned with our own first merchant account (used to accept credit cards), that experienced helped us and eventually our customers. After we lost over $3000 with a shady rep, we researched over 64 companies to work with. We interviewed the top 11. (Why 11? It just worked out that way). In the end we felt we had one of the top vendors in the biz working with us. Later when we began helping others setup merchant accounts for their ecommerce sites, we had that experience to draw on. We still work with that vendor today and they have been a reliable part of our success. Just one of many examples. Since then we have developed SiteSteward. A huge project that allows our customers to view everything about the site with just a few clicks of the mouse. When does the domain renew?