Hi, Sean... Yes, the cost is not an issue. I've just never used shared hosting or a VPS and I'm just trying to clearly understand the issues.
Seems like VPS is a better way to go, based on the responses. I don't have much concern for being able to handle the setup and maintenance of the system, since I'll still be running my server until I'm comfortable with the new one and all my code is running properly on CF 8. The two big things I've snagged on with shared hosting is the inability to use CFX_JPG on a shared environment... that's going to cause me to have to rewrite a lot of code. Also, at least with CrystalTech, I apparently can have only *one* database, so I've to combine all my databases into one and rename every table. Now, that's a pain... and if I ever want to separate the databases, I've got to go through the process of breaking up the database and renaming all the tables again. I still don't get that part from CrystalTech. Their features list has "Datasources/DSNs Unlimited" "Database Connections Unlimited" "MySQL 5 800MB" (with my plan) Now for the support people to tell me that I can have only one database and that the "unlimited" part refers to the "type of connections" doesn't make any sense to me. If that were the case, then why are "Datasources/DSN's" (which I would think would refer to databases) be listed separately from "Database Connections"? And, at least in a query, a "datasource" is typically a database for me. The support person must be correct, however, because I only asked when I tried to add my second database and the control panel warned that additional databases would incur additional charges per month. I would have thought the support person was wrong, if the system hadn't first warned me. I emailed support at that point, and sure enough, support said every additional database was $5 per month. I think that's a little nuts. Maybe I'm missing something. Rick -----Original Message----- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 7:38 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SOT: Shared Hosting vs VPS On 9/23/07, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just wonder if there are any more "gotcha's" that I haven't considered > with shared hosting Your application scope is accessible to anyone else on the same server instance which could be an issue if you put any sensitive data into application scope. Your sites may become unavailable due to someone else's bad code on your server taking down the whole instance. Depending on the hosting company, if someone guesses your datasource name, they have full access to your database (depends on whether the hosting company puts passwords in datasources or not and whether they correctly use sandbox security - assuming they're running enterprise, of course). Since you have several client sites, I would expect the cost of the VPS to be miniscule in comparison to the ongoing income from maintaining those sites? -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289253 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
