Spongy Donuts started as a morphing of my original IT side business I started in 1998. That business focused on custom computer building, technical support, and digital design mainly (and many wedding audio CDs around the 2000s). In 2024, Spongy Donuts celebrates sixteen years as its own entity.
Being a self-proclaimed geek and an IT teacher with a Master’s in Instructional Technology and current A+, Network+, and CCNT: Networking certifications, I had friends and family constantly asking me to help set up websites for them. As I was setting up sites, I had to explain that they must also register a domain name and find a webhost for their new site. Geeks often believe everyone has the innate ability to tinker with technology; however, in my experience, most people don’t enjoy poring through lines of code to find a missing semicolon. Moreover, people want their technology, be it a website or a computer, to just work. Consequently, I set up Spongy Donuts as a one stop solution for those people who just want a website–whatever that entails behind the scenes. That is the goal of of Spongy Donuts: to offer an easy, affordable solution to those who want performance, all the hosting goodies, and a support staff who realizes not everyone enjoys “fixing” technology problems.
Where did the name Spongy Donuts come from? How is that related to webhosting? Do you have a strange donut fetish? I’m not sure how I thought up the name of Spongy Donuts–it just sounded cool. It’s not related to technology at all; well, except coffee and snacks seem to go hand-in-hand with staying up late and fixing computer problems. I am not actually a huge fan of donuts. However, on a visit to Portland, Oregon, I stumbled across Voodoo Donuts, and I must admit, they have excellent donuts. And no, Voodoo Donuts isn’t giving me a dime to say this. Although, if you’re from Voodoo Donuts, shoot me an email (mark at spongydonuts.com).