> As a consumer, yes, I'd be willing to pay $5 or $10 more per month in
order
> NOT to have to tie up my hosting provider's tech support lines with "It's
> down again". I just went through a very frustrating situation with a CF
> Host where they were trying their hardest to fix the problem and the
server
> didn't want to act nice.
Unfortunately for Macromedia, this is NOT the right time to introduce a
substantial price hike for hosting providers. Many are totally fed up with
the problems they've had with CF. Even those that haven't had problems
cross their fingers and wonder what they've done right. Trying to convince
these providers that CF will magically become faster and more stable, while
at the same time asking them to bend over and take it, is going to be
marketing feat that I'd like see MM pull off.
I'd be very wary of how your hosting company is going receive this wonderful
news. My guess it that they'll be:
1. Staying at CF 4.5 and fading out CF services. After CF 5 has been out
for a few months, certainly once CF 5.5 or CF 6 comes out, advertising CF
4.5 hosting would be suicidal, like advertising that your servers run NT
3.5.
2. Raising hosting prices AND packing more sites onto shared servers. This
is good news for consumers?
Jim
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