This only applies to CF Enterprise. CF8 Standard has en extra cost per VPS of 2 CPUs.
On 9/24/07, jonese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If i'm not mistaken the cost of CF is per 2 physical cpu's, so if you have a > dual processor system you spend $1300 then say you throw 4 VPS systems on > that box.This means that each VPS is responsible for $325 ( $1300 / 4 ) of > the cost of ColdFusion Standard OR $1875 For CF ENT. Span each of these over > 4 months and you've got $81.25 a month for Standard and $468.75 for ENT. > After the first 4 months it's profit minus other costs. > > AND treating it like a shared hosting environment, after you've got the > license paid off then the next VPS on the box will be $0 CF cost. I know > some hosting companies that are planning major VMware roll outs and see this > as a very viable alternative to new boxes. > > I personally would go with the $70 VPS IF you have some sys admin experience > or know you'll get good support from the company or other resources. I'm a > control freak though and hate shared hosting. > > jonese > > On 9/23/07, John Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:289258 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
