> This actually happened to me recently: The potential customer, who > is now hosting with some $10/month outfit, thinks that $50/month is > about all he can muster for a redundant solution. And you have to > agree with him, sort of. A 5X increase in his hosting bill seems > like an awfully high price to pay for a backup site when he doesn't > understand how complex the problems really are.
He's lucky enough to presumably have a "brochureware" site which does not depend on real-time data that is only available at one geographic location at a time. For example, database-backed sites whose database can be open for writing at only one site are a *helluva* lot harder to balance. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/ Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/download/release/ http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/release/ --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
