If you don't need the extra features in CF Enterprise then I would say what are you spending the extra money for? To say that it was always a bad choice would be to say that MM is putting out a worthless product. I don't see that and it is a valid product for a lower volume traffic site. (Or a great intranet tool for small business. Great alternative to doing 10 user MS Access applications!) If you had a client with failing MS Access applications and wanted to move them to CF... then suggesting moving them to enterprise may land another client for ASP.Net, guess it depends if you want the business or not. (If you only want BIG TICKET projects... and you can get them... go for it! Not everyone has that luxury though.)
I also know that redundancy and many other issues are valid concerns in providing hosting services. It is a legit business for "Joe Backwaters" who lives in Kalamazoo to start a web business. Yet when he should start hosting his clients on his own servers in another question. Business should be built... or perhaps we could get some of these guys to create a web business franchise and show the rest of us how to do it for a fee! John Farrar NOTE: I am also researching the integration of the Cache data engine with CF. It is not actually an ORDMS (object relational database management system)... but it does ORDMS as well as traditional SQL on the same data store. It also does web services and XML. Looking for some others who would like to join in on an exciting journey! If I can get this connected then my guess is it will be a demonstration that will make anyone on this list stop and freeze in their seat if they see it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Bryant Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 1:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CFCDev] Cash flow and running a business (was: Factory Pattern This is an interesting debate - not the least because I find myself disagreeing with those whom I usually agree (and vice versa). Which causes me to be curious if I misinterpreting arguments or missing something relatively major in my own process. Some of my sites are hosted in shared hosting while others are on a dedicated machine. I make the decision based on the needs of a particular client. In no case do I provide hosting myself. This is only in very small part to save money. A much larger issue, for me, is that hosting is outside my skill set and outside what I enjoy doing. Given that I don't do hosting, and that some of my clients don't want to manage that on their own, I try to present my client multiple options for how to handle their hosting. I find that for some, using shared hosting is the best option - even if that means that they run on CF Professional. Am I missing something in this discussion or does anyone see a problem in having some clients on shared hosting (running CF Pro)? Thanks for your input, Steve Bryant. Bryant Web Consulting LLC http://www.BryantWebConsulting.com/ http://steve.coldfusionjournal.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
