I think you can find advantages and disadvantages to both -
we have clients who also have jobs as well as there 'internet activities'
and they like the fact they can sit at there desk at lunchtime and access
there web based control panel whereas a windows one is stuck at home -
web based is also good if travelling etc and you have your single license on
your desktop not your laptop and having had 3 laptops stolen from
hotels....but thats a different story..
as for nasty URL's we stick the impotant ones in the toolbar on explorer or
in your favourites
but I don't have any definitive data from my clients as to whether they want
a windows based system over the web based one - although we offered our beta
testers both options during the testing of freeVSD none have taken up the
windows client or even asked about it - but again thats just 10 testers so
maybe not a fair comparison
One thing I will say is its new and sure will provoke strong feelings which
is good and I like the fact that Idaya are doing some thinking outside the
box and this could be a great opportunity for web hosts who adopt it to
steal some ground on those that don't and that sure would be nice.
As for the price - I suppose we need to sit down and do the figures and
maybe see some more info on the actual licence and per host costs to decide
Gary Reid
> Afternoon,
>
> I personally can think of a hell of a lot of advantages over Windows
clients,
> vs PHP web based management scripts.
>
> as you may know there are a lot of PC's out there running Windows, and
having
> a native client makes a lot of sense.
> I take it you have head of ICQ or perhaps AOL instant messanger, Yahoo
> Messanger, I'm sure the list goes on.
> Let me put it to you that AOL/ICQ/Yahoo (yadda yadda) where all PHP based,
> and ran off the web, well frankly I dont think as many people would be
using
> them.
> The whole aspect of using a web based interface is just yucky to me, I
want a
> client that is on my desktop, at the ready when I need it, everyone knows
> URL's are just nasty, and http://www.hostserver.com/admin/ is nothing like
> the convenience of being able to double click an icon.
>
> I'll draw another comparson,
>
> Web based mail vs POP mail (or imap etc) - there is a lot of use of Web
based
> mail granted, but it will never beat the conveniance of having a email
> client, being able to drag and drop, send files in the middle of the
night,
> at times you want, offline reading and etc.
>
> Anyhow I'm getting offtopic, basicly I believe in the Windows support
tools,
> and think that is what people (ie: the end user) want, and can see the
> infanite possibilities of having a client on your desktop.
>
> Web based managment is just not conveniant enough for the customers or end
> users these days, and thats what its about... the end user, and keeping
them
> happy - and making it easy for joe-average to control a complex system
without
> having to know anything other than how to double click the Idaya icon. =>
>
> And finally, I believe the price is a bargan, twice the price would still
be
> a steal.
>
> We have to pay our overheads somehow, I gave up working for love years
ago,
> along with a lot of other people in this industry.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nigel "thank god I dont use Webmail anymore" Marett.
>
>
>
