I'm sure you'll get plenty of responses, but I wanted to point out a few
things based upon my experience with various hosts:
- make sure that client vars are configured to use ODBC, not the
Registry - otherwise performance will suffer, affecting the customer
- ease of configuring ODBC datasources - many companies require you to
email them, and take a couple of days to get it done (this can be easily
automated)
- scalable packages - I'm not talking about storage or bandwidth. Most
hosts throw X number of clients per server (oftentimes in the hundreds).
I understand that this is cost effective. If I want "cheap", I
recognize that I'll be sharing with hundreds. However, I'd like to see
packages where I can choose my level of exclusivity on a server, and pay
accordingly (for example, something like $30 to share with 300, $50 to
share with 100, $80 to share with 50, etc, with the same amount of space
and bandwidth per package)
- security - very few, if any (I haven't seen any exceptions, though I'm
sure they're out there) know how to properly implement CF security. The
answer is to usually disable *key* tags and features, (though some
foolish companies leave them open, with no restrictions) - it's possible
(and safe) to enable things like RDS, CFFile, unlimited custom tags,
etc, if advanced security with sandboxes is *properly* implemented.
- have a large quantity of the *standard* free (or commercial, and pass
the cost on to the customers) custom tags pre-installed (both CFX and
CFM) - perhaps even some COM objects as well
I (though I think I'm speaking for many) would be willing to pay more
for a host that goes above and beyond.
---
Billy Cravens
Web Development, EDS
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Kraeger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 8:48 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Hosting
Hello, a friend of mine asked me what the Cold Fusion community wanted
in a Cold Fusion hosting company, what I thought the most important
issues were to a cold fusion hosting company, price, features, customer
services.
He wants to start hosting CF sites, they have done ASP and PHP very well
and know want to get into cf. I did not know how to answer him since I
don't host many sites out in the hosting world. So I am wondering if
some of you can help me answer his questions.
1. What is it you want in a cold fuison hosting company that you
currently can not get.
2. What features do you want from your hosting company.
3. What price ranges are you looking to be in.
4. what is most important to you price, features, customer services.
Thanks in advance for your help, you can email me your answer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or post to the list
Thank you,
Gary Kraeger
NETDesign Inc.
http://www.netdesigninc.com
Top 100 Web Development Company
Cfdev.com
www.cfdev.com
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