> To prevent you from hosting multiple sites on it. Well, the interesting thing about that is that they know that's what I'm doing and have helped me get everything set up the way their system works. They even had the control panel set up where I can add additional domains for the email accounts for other websites.
With that in mind, the reason for a single database is still unclear. Perhaps that's the way they make additional money off of multiple websites, if they need databases. Strange... Rick -----Original Message----- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 2:44 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Shared Hosting vs VPS John Mason wrote: > The $30 deal seems silly. Why only one database? To prevent you from hosting multiple sites on it. > At $70 per month, they have to be cutting a lot of corners to make that > economical. For example, CF Standard costs $1300, it would take over 18 > months just to recoup the cost of CF? With 4 Virtual servers on one Physical server, a 20% discount because they buy wholesale they recoup CF in 4 months. > One other point, is most hosters will give you complete control (basically > terminal service access) to the box. Do you really want this? You might be a > good programmer, but are you also a solid system administrator? Do you > really want to carry that load as well? Then think, others have the same > access to their servers. Now you have even higher security concerns to deal > with in relation to that. Others having access to *their* VPS does not add to the security concerns of *your* VPS. > Then ask yourself, if your VPS does go down. Who has to do the > rebuild. Do they simply provide a fresh VPS instance and leave you to set > everything back up? And how hard is that? Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289226 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
