With about 20 sites you may consider co-location. 2-3 servers can fit in a 1/8 cabinet for about 125CAD a month with 25Gb transfer free. You get full control of your servers which also comes with some small responsibilities. However, the added flexibility and virtually unlimited growth space as well as not so high price are, in my opinion, well worth it.

TK
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Burns, John
  To: CF-Talk
  Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 2:04 PM
  Subject: RE: CF Hosting

  Mike,

  I appreciate the contact.  Here's the deal.  I have a side business that
  I do (approximately 7 sites) and a friend has a business that handles
  approximately 7-10 sites.  We're looking at a possible merger of our two
  businesses and some growth in the near future.  We prefer windows
  servers (right now I use a linux host) and Microsoft SQL as the database
  server.  Most hosting companies disable a bunch of CF tags for security
  purposes.  The main ones that we need that aren't available with most
  places are: CFFILE, CFDIRECTORY, CFEXECUTE and CFCONTENT.  We'd like to
  be able to have all of the sites be able to use commons sets of code
  (and ideally be able to get to all of the sites with one ftp login).
  We've considered doing a co-location or dedicated server but we're
  worried about server availability without doing some kind of clustering
  or something like that.  Do you have clustered servers? Our goal is to
  get something that won't cost us an arm and a leg so we can offer it to
  our customers for a reasonable price and we need near-free-reign as far
  as coding goes so we can take advantage of some of the advanced features
  in CF.  Let me know your responses and we'd be glad to consider your
  company.  Thanks!

  John Burns

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 1:55 PM
  To: CF-Talk
  Subject: RE: CF Hosting

  Do you want to be a reseller of this space or are you the client here,
  John?

  We can handle nearly all of that, but we don't have a reseller program -
  its not in our business strategy.  We'll work with you and be as
  flexible as anyone anywhere, but a reseller program is something we
  haven't built in
  yet.   So it means the control panel you'll get is the end user control
  panel not a reseller's one.

  We have no disabled tags except CFREGISTRY but if you needed it, we
  could consider it.  But no promises.  We don't really want to expose
  everyone to risk of one person making a mistake using it.

  We will allow any CFX tags, but we want to install it for you and we
  want to see what it does first.  If there's a risk to other clients
  we'll work to find another way of doing what you want, but so far we've
  never had to say to anyone 'Nope you can't do that" (which was a regular
  occurrence when I started out hosting).

  Why do you need IMAP?   Will POP3/SMTP do for what you need?

  Otherwise .. we have Win2K, SQL2000, CFMX6.1  users get their own
  control panel to set up their email accounts etc themselves, set up
  databases, ftp sites etc.  

  For fuller details see
  http://afpwebworks.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=DisplayDocument
  <http://afpwebworks.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=DisplayDocument&DocumentID=
  4>
  &DocumentID=4   (NOTE:  If you're comparing prices based on this, they
  are
  quoted here in Australian dollars including GST.  We can bill in any
  currency if you use a credit card, and if you're not doing business in
  Australia, that takes 10% off the price because we don't have to charge
  you
  GST).   

  As a guide, the prices shown on our page would be about 2/3 if expressed
  in US dollars for a non-Australian company at today's exchange rate).

  Cheers

  Mike Kear

  Windsor, NSW, Australia

  AFP Webworks

  http://afpwebworks.com

    _____  

  From: Burns, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Wednesday, 24 December 2003 3:43 AM
  To: CF-Talk
  Subject: CF Hosting

  Ok, I know this has been asked multiple times, but I want to see if
  anyone has a direction for me based on my specific needs...

  I need to find a hosting company that meets the following requirements.
  This can be done through a shared hosting or dedicated server, but I'm
  trying to find a reliable, low-cost solution for hosting approximately
  20 sites (growing in the near future).  The hosting must:

  - CFMX 6.1
  - allow the use of ALL CF tags (no disabled tags)
  - windows server OS preferred
  - tape backups
  - company support for hardware and maybe some software issues
  - MS SQL server
  - POP/IMAP support

  I think that covers it.  If you have any suggestions, please let me
  know.  I have considered the co-location option, but I'm somewhat afraid
  of depending on a single server for all of that load.  Thanks

  John

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