Michael Silverstein wrote:
I need to host an application built around Tomcat and MySQL. The bandwidth, computation and database size requirements will start small and (hopefully) grow, so it needs to scale both in terms of capability and price. There are tons of service providers out there making similar claims. Are there any happy customers here that can recommend a particular hosting service?
Since you didn't even hint at a price range, I'll start small. We're using http://rimuhosting.com/ to host our issue-tracking system that runs Jira on Tomcat and Mysql. You get a full RHES3 virtual machine with root login privs - tomcat 5 and mysql pre-installed. If you are accustomed to RH, it will look just like you expect. My only caveat with Rimu is that it is not clear how large they can scale. They only list prices for VMs up to 128M (full linux VM, not JVM memory). It's costing us about $40/month. Note that this is Tomcat...not a full J2EE server. I've only had to contact their support a few times, but they were very responsive and knowledgeable in each case. If you need a higher level of scalability, robustness and support, I would recommend talking to http://contegix.com. I have spoken to them on several occasions since they specialize in Confluence/Jira hosting. Despite the fact that I told them that they were out of our price range at the moment, Matthew Porter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) gave me some great (and lengthy) advice about hosting Jira to get the best performance. That is where I'll look first when we out-grow our current host. I think you're looking at $250-300 range with them. I would avoid oxxus.net. Despite a claim to be running RHES, it didn't look anything like a normal RHES system. Directory structures and config files were rearranged and after a day of work, I failed to get Jira to run at all. For comparison purposes, it took less than 2 hours on my first try to install Jira on an in-house RHES3 box. Their support was ok, I guess, but they didn't seem to understand the impact of their rearranged directories on a java web-app installation. One disclaimer - the Jira install is not a simple "drop WAR in /webapps" process. Installing an in-house developed WAR file was successful, but required the intervention of their support personnel. Good luck, C -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Merrill | http://www.webperformanceinc.com Web Performance Inc. Website Load Testing and Stress Testing Software ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [email protected] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org
