I'd be interested to know which route you decide to take. I stopped taking on new clients about 2 years ago. I now look after only 3 and their bandwidth requirements are small. They've all been with me for a very long time and do produce a useful bit of income.
My setup now is a windows 2003 server with CF7 / SQL 2000. Old, I know, but it works and there has been nothing of use to me in the upgrades, certainly nothing to make it worth me paying the crazy upgrade costs. The server sits in my garage on a business broadband line, not ideal, I know this, especially as my garage has been converted into a headshot studio for my photography business! I don't have time for the major hassle of porting my sites from CF7 to whatever CF is on now. I also integrating one of the sites quite heavily into my SmarterMail server, such as automated generation of mail list members and I pull the contents of one of the mail lists into an archive made available on the website. Ideally I'd like to get everything shifted to a VPS, but would I be able to run these old applications? And where could I get an inexpensive yet reliable service? I'd appreciate any ideas, please. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Eidson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 08 November 2014 01:48 To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Is time for a change? Oh I know all about the email hosting.. .Before I moved to Hostek I had a T1 line into my basement. Did all my own hosting, I had 2 server cabinets with all Dells...(I still have them) pretty good setup. I started my company with that and then the T1 became outdated and very expensive. I used ArgoSoft Mail Server, actually really liked it but the SPAM and Blacklist were a nightmare. But back then my company was bigger with closer to 100 domains/clients. I formed a partnership with another person who pretty much screwed me over. We split up the company (lost a lot of clients in the breakup) and I formed Eidson Empire, LLC. and moved to Hostek for my provider. I still not sure what I am going to do.. I think the VPS will be more than I can afford right now. Maybe if I land about 10 more clients I can justify it. Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:359610 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
