On 26/05/2010 15:14, Mark Mandel wrote:
What are other companies out there doing? I.e. have people had
experience with MS knocking on their door? Or any other platform? Anyone
know first hand?
(I'm still waiting for the PHP evangelists to come knocking).
I've missed all the fun as I was busy this morning, installing yet
another SQL2008 server to handle yet more clients and a couple more VMs
to put them on. Not showing off, just simple fact.
We are a CF-only hosting company and yes, we are not cheap as hosting in
Oz is not cheap, that's _all_ hosting not just CF hosting. Like Steve
said it costs 2K a month to have a rack in a decent datacentre, we pay
well into 5 figures a month for hosting costs but for that sort of money
you get a degree of reliability that you don't get elsewhere. Its the
old, old story, you get what you pay for. We don't have 400 sites on one
web server or 200 databases on a DB server, that's what happens when you
pay $5 a month for your hosting. And if the power wobbles, we keep going.
I got two phone calls yesterday relevant to this conversation, one from
a prospective client who was fed up with the poor service at their
existing hosting company, its in Brisbane and owned by a Victorian
company if you know the one I mean. They are coming to us at twice the
price they were paying before to get something that actually works (and
I'm talking $55pm for a CMS site not thousands for a big business site).
The other phone call was from Microsoft! They did come knocking at our
door, metaphorically speaking! Wanted to know if we were happy, etc. We
are a CF shop but we are also a Windows shop, we own quite a few Win2008
Datacentre licenses and SQL2008 ditto, we do spend serious (by small
business standards) money with them even if we compete with their web
technology.
And talking of evangelising we have decided to put our CMS into the
public domain and really start promoting cfml as a language and note the
use of "cfml" there not "Coldfusion". I think that is important now, it
is in the public domain at the application platform level, it is not
just Adobe any more and we need to start making noises.
Here in Sydney the last Coldfusion User Group meeting was a long time
ago, we now have an Adobe Platform User Group and Chris does a grand job
but apart from me jumping up and down and mentioning cfml at every
opportunity in the audience there has been no CF content in ages, its
all Flex and Flash, etc. The Adobe Way.
I have been thinking seriously about having a cfml user group, not
directly connected to Adobe to see if we can attract a new crew of
developers. Is that a viable idea?
--
Yours,
Kym Kovan
mbcomms.net.au
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