Thanks for the feedback, John, it's much appreciated. I had the same thoughts about the cost aspect. I wondered if they're getting a good deal from Adobe to make it feasible or if it just ultimately paid off quickly enough.
The control panel you mentioned is either Plesk or HostingController.com. Haven't used either... And the access to the VPS is via Remote Desktop, which I don't see any problem with. The servers for the VPS also run on Raid 5 arrays, which is good in case of hard drive failure. I've been running mine on Raid for backup and uptime, as well. And yes, one of the things I was concerned about was being able to quickly get up to speed on administering CF 8 and having only administered CF 4.5 for about 8 years, and also Win 2003 Server after having only used Win 2000 Server. But I would imagine the basic functions that I get into would be very similar. Also, the VPS company reassured me that I wouldn't be responsible for the basic maintenance of either Win 2003 Server or CF 8, since those are what come with the package. Other software I choose to install, I would need to handle... that would basically just be MySQL, which is no problem, since I've been using it for years. Another aspect of the VPS I like is being able to install particular software or tags that I need. For instance, I've been using CFX_JPG from Efflare for years and most of my sites use it. Granted, the tags in CF8 can probably handle my needs now, but almost all of my current sites are coded for CFX_JPG and I would either likely have to do without it on a shared host and recode all the sites that use it to work without it. It's just hard making the transition from running my own hardware and software to the limitations of outsourced hosting, either shared or VPS. But at least with VPS I have much more control over the system, even rebooting it, which I don't have with shared hosting environment. Rick -----Original Message----- From: John Mason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 2:04 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Shared Hosting vs VPS The $30 deal seems silly. Why only one database? I personally don't like the VPS options that several of the other hosting companies are now offering as being even remotely reasonable. Here goes my rant on VPS... 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 server/bandwidth/resources included over 2 years. Either the resources they give you would be seriously limited and/or they have to be overloading the servers to make this profitable. Putting way too many VPSs on one server. Several people here have noted the bad performance from VPS. 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. If they have firewalls protecting you from the outside. Do they also have firewalls protecting you from other VPSs? If their control panel can't handle most server setup functions then frankly it should. 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? There's a lot to consider when they offer you enough rope to hang yourself with. I'm not going to sale you on FusionLink here. If you like, I can address you on our options off list. I just want to point out VPS might not be as good of a deal as it seems. John Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] 770.337.8363 www.FusionLink.com - ColdFusion and Flex hosting Now offering ColdFusion 8 Enterprise hosting FREE Subversion hosting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289227 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
