Micha brings up a point you guys with the triple-digit site counts should consider, if you are on shared hosting... why on God's green Earth are you putting up with a shared environment? Costwise, the breakeven point is *long* past.
I host mostly mom-and-pop sites (trafficwise) which means that, even though they use a cms and are often db-heavy, the 100 -5000 daily sessions aren't a severe load. So lets say for the sake of argument I put 50 such sites up. I charge $40 monthly for hosting. I have two servers: 1 is CF/IIS and the other is db/mail/statistics. US$40x50=US$2000 monthly I pay US$780 monthly for the above. These are overbuilt servers whose usage curves indicates I have a LOT of room to expand. At this traffic level I can double the site count. I had to buy a CF license, a Serv-U license, a SmarterMail license, a LiveStats license. I use mySQL as the db so thats $0. Its not BIG money by any means, but the real deal is *I* control it. Only *my* CF code is allowed on the box, so I can provide mighty good stability, and if there's a problem I can dig right to the root of the problem. I install the CFX's I want, put on updates immediately if I want (Crystaltech is horrible about this. I have a client paying for a managed dedicated server there and they are usually a month late doing that), leave my socks on the couch if I want etc. The level of control you get and the peace of mind that goes with it is worth everything. I've been doing my own dedicated servers for maybe four years and I wouldn't go back to shared hosting for anything. I'm not thrilled with C'tech service, but they do have ridiculously cheap prices on incredibly overbuilt servers. -- --mattRobertson-- Janitor, MSB Web Systems mysecretbase.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:198223 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
