Does anybody have any knowledge or insight into how a web hosting company works? Specifically, the technology or business model?
My company is working on a project and we are looking at possibly setting up a hosted environment for this application. So, I am looking for information on how shared hosting environments are setup and run. >From a technology standpoint ... - I assume application servers are still split from database and mail servers? - Are application servers big boxes with internal RAID, or small 1U boxes attached to disk arrays? Are the load balanced with fail overs? - I assume ColdFusion enterprise with sandbox security would be utilized? - How many sites can you host on a server? >From a business standpoint ... - Do hosting company's have active sales teams seeking new customers or just answering the phones based upon marketing efforts? - What kind of marketing efforts do they utilize? Web based? Search Engines? Direct mail? Magazine Ads? Cold Calling? - Assuming an 'average' quality and priced product offering, what kind of numbers are reasonable in terms of new customers and turnover each month? I am not sure where I can find this type of information, so I thought I would see if there are any knowledgeable people lurking around here. Thanks for any help or pointers. -- Jeff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:225949 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
