> With hosting as cheap as it is ... Why? For us, the why was simple, security, stability and generally an all round cosy feeling that we know exactly what is going on with the boxes our sites are hosted on.... That plus we get more control over our own destiny as a business.
The last reason is really an historic one... In the past, one could argue that CF has been a 'high maintenance' application to manage prior to the release of CFMX. Sharing a server meant that your sites performance was at the mercy of the worst CF programmer that also used the same box.. I know that argument is becoming less of a problem with the Enterprise versions of CF but at the time we chose to host our own hardware, it was a good and solid reason to do it. Also finding a reputable CF hosting company that is responsive and clued up is getting to be difficult here in the UK... Oh, don't forget being able to hit the metal with C++ CFX tags and access to Java objects... How many shared hosts are really happy installing these things??? I know that the tags I write are stable but an ISP that is being asked to install one of them on a shared server is gonna be wary of installing and third party dll on their system... We just don't want the hassle of being told no, you can't have that piece of functionality... Sandboxes however cool for security on a shared server are again a restriction that I don't want to have to deal with.... That being said, if I were and ISP offering shared CF hosting, I'd lock down the server as tight as can be, sandbox the sites and refuse to install C++ before subjecting them to a thorough testing regime... With regards to Randys questions... We co-locate our server at a local ISP (about 20 mins drive away) and they have their own DNS servers that we use. We have a good working relationship and I have on the odd occasion done some CF contracting work for them. Being able to use our ISP's DNS servers in this way is great as it cuts down massively on our hardware investment requirements. Currently, we run the mail and web services off of one server. As our business expands the plan is to invest in extra hardware and co-locate that providing a separate mail server but load at the moment is not really an issue on the server we have. Software side of this equation, we are running the POP service that ships with Windows 2003. At the moment, we're seriously looking at moving over to MailEnable after checking it out thoroughly and working out how to migrate all the mailboxes... Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:145820 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
