First of all for a small business chapter s is definitely the way to go. The following is my take on your hosting idea, from a customers' point of view. I don't do setup fees, personally. They are a huge turn off when I am talking to an isp or a hosting company. For comparison, I am currently paying (no setup) $14.99 for CF, Perl, php, and unlimited databases (mySQL SQL2000 and postgre are available). The gotcha there is that tech support is a bit....dense at times and definitely does not have english as its first language. Your idea might appeal to someone who only needs the one database, I suppose. 24 hour tech support is good.
Now my take as a former tech support person. I would use great caution with the cellphone thing. It would probably be better, at that price, to have email support only. You can always email someone your cellphone number if you determine that it would be easier to walk them through something. That way you would leave yourself a *little* control over when you are working. Let us know if you set it up :) Dana On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:38:55 -0400, Heald, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I am in the process of first registering for partnership, and then > purchasing this (I'll let you know if the coupon works :) > > I am wondering, did any of you ever take the time to set up an actual > company? How difficult is it? I was thinking sub chapter s? > > Additionally, as a personal sort of survey, how many of you have an > account > at a hosting company you use just for development? What kind of money is > it > costing? How many could/would use something cheap and easy with lets say > CFMX/SQL Server 2000. > > See here's what I am looking at. I have a T-1 at the house (well 1.5 > adsl). > I am hosting a few very small scale sites. I mean really small, like no > traffic, and my personal site (which really needs an update). A friend > and > I were talking about setting up a really basic hosting company. Two > different plans we were looking at. Either a one time set up fee of say > 50 > bucks, then 5 dollars a month, gets you 1 SQL Server datasource and 20 > megs. > Or the same thing with no set up fee for $15 a month. Also I have the > space > and ability to do colocs and we were looking at getting one of the new > OSX > servers, as I have heard that finding web objects hosting is rather > difficult and expensive. So basically I guess we would be able to host > CF, > JSP, ASP, I could add a PHP server easy enough, Web Objects, and PERL. > Anything else that we would need? > > Also I would probably just give out my cell number for support. Make it > easily 24 hours. I mean hell it's in my house right? The wife knows how > to > do anything basic I need to do. > > Do you guys think it would be worth doing? I mean I am already paying > for > the services, maybe make something back right? > > Any ideas or thoughts would be much appreciated. > > Tim > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Critz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 10:01 AM >> To: CF-Community >> Subject: Microsoft ActionPack Subscription (with coupon....) >> >> oi CF-Community,!! >> >> I've not checked the coupon, but I do have a subscription to the >> Action Pack.. and it's a great >> deal.... >> >> >> MS Action Pack on sale for $99 >> >> http://members.microsoft.com/partner/salesmarketing/partnermarket/actionpa >> >> >> >> >> ck/actionpackus.aspx >> >> >> Use the code MHQ062 to get a $200 discount on the normal $299 1-year >> subscription. >> >> For those new to the concept, this is an offer to Microsoft Partners, a >> large assortment of MS software (NFD - not for distribution or resale). >> It's very easy to register as a Partner. It's a one-year subscription >> with >> updates sent throughout the year. All of this and more included (or >> similar products): >> >> Microsoft� Windows� XP Professional with Service Pack 1 Microsoft Small >> Business Server 2000 with Service Pack 1 Microsoft SQL ServerTM 2000 >> Developer Edition Microsoft Exchange 2000 Enterprise Server Microsoft >> Mobile Information Server 2002 Microsoft Office XP Professional with >> Service Pack 1 Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server >> Microsoft SharePointTM Portal Server 2001 Microsoft Publisher 2002 >> Microsoft MapPoint� 2002 Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server with >> Service Pack 3 Microsoft Outlook� 2002 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service >> Pack 2 Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Service Pack 3 Microsoft Visio� >> 2002 Professional Service Release 1 Microsoft FrontPage� 2002 Microsoft >> ISA Server Service Pack 1 Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001 >> Service Pack 2 Microsoft Project 2002 Professional Microsoft Windows >> Server 2003 Enterprise Edition >> >> >> --- >> [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] >> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Host with the leader in ColdFusion hosting. Voted #1 ColdFusion host by CF Developers. Offering shared and dedicated hosting options. www.cfxhosting.com/default.cfm?redirect=10481 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
