Yeah, I haven't done a site that has gone on shared hosting in like... hmm 3 years maybe(on Godaddy no less). Most of my apps are on a dedicated box minimum so yeah I am not too worried about shared hosting :-)
I was just repeating what Forta said at the Nashville Scorpio stop. -J.J. On 6/5/07, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/5/07, J.J. Merrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > According to Forta the cost in a bulk license is so small that there is > no > > reason for hosting companies to even charge a premium. > > Yes, there absolutely is. > > You can pretty easily put 500 php web sites on a single box without > too much trouble. > > You can't put 500 CF sites on a single box though. > > Plain and simple, the power we are afforded by Coldfusion prevents a > hosting company from realistically putting any more than a fraction of > the site that they can put on a standard php/html type server. Your > average host that supports php gets a lot of static web sites. Your > average host that supports CF probably gets a LOT more database > intensive websites. > > The cost of hosting CF web sites is not necessarly related to the cost > of the CF license. Sure, you fork out maybe $3000/year, or $250/month > for a CF enterprise license. If you put 100 sites on a server, that's > $2.50/month for the cost of the CF license. Really though, a server > with 100 cf-powered web sites? > > I'm spoiled by my dedicated server with 15 web sites on it I guess =) > > Rick > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:280202 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
