RE: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-23 Thread Dave Watts
2. AHP does the windows updates every weekend so you can count on a random restart on Saturday or Sunday. Most places do the Windows update once a month. 3. A few months ago a Windows Update caused our VPS to go up and down like a yo-yo and it took a couple days before they could

RE: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-23 Thread Rick Faircloth
transfer. Cost/Benefit... Rick -Original Message- From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 7:26 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts Does AHP have a generator system in place? I could not find anything about

Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-23 Thread Sean Corfield
On Nov 19, 2007 6:36 AM, John Blayter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. AHP does the windows updates every weekend so you can count on a random restart on Saturday or Sunday. Most places do the Windows update once a month. 3. A few months ago a Windows Update caused our VPS to go up and down like a

RE: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-23 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 10:20 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts 2. AHP does the windows updates every weekend so you can count on a random restart on Saturday or Sunday. Most places do

Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-23 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
Does AHP have a generator system in place? I could not find anything about their infrastructure on their site. Yes, their servers are all colocated at Internap which is the same facility that houses Adobe, TimeWarner, and other large sites. Their generators can keep the servers up for at

Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-21 Thread Jordan Michaels
Thanks for bringing this post to my attention. With regards to generator backup, we do realize that this is one of the chinks in our armor, and as you said, we are very much working toward implementing a solution for this. Generators are amazingly expensive and it will be difficult to implement,

Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-20 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
Same here. I use viviotech vps and they are great at responding to support tickets and keep on top of other support related issues that come up in their forums. I used them for a short time myself but dropped them due to the lack of proper infrastructure/generator backup. I understand they are

Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-19 Thread Mik Muller
Been using Viux for a while. Top-end VPS is a pretty good deal at 125 + 20 before add-ons. http://hosting.viux.com/services/virtual/virtual-extreme-windows.asp Dedicated starts at 245 + 20. Mik At 10:34 PM 11/18/2007, John Blayter wrote: I am looking for a good VPS or Dedicated CF host. My

Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-19 Thread Will Tomlinson
I'm a 4 yr CrystalTech customer, but I've become disappointed with them over the last year or so. I get some of the most entertaining responses from their support. I'd rather just ask James, Jim, or some of the other bright folks on the list, because I sure can't rely on CT. I needed

Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-19 Thread John Blayter
Here are some of the issues that I have had with AHP. 1. The base server that I was on crashed over the weekend and I think that our total downtime was 20+ hours before we were successfully moved to another server. 2. AHP does the windows updates every weekend so you can count on a random

Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-19 Thread Yves Arsenault
I've been a Viviotech VPS and Dedicated server customer for some time now. I have no complaints. Yves On Nov 18, 2007 11:34 PM, John Blayter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a good VPS or Dedicated CF host. My budget is about $200 a month max. I have been having some serious issues

RE: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-19 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: Will Tomlinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 9:03 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts I'm a 4 yr CrystalTech customer, but I've become disappointed with them over the last year or so. I get some of the most

Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-19 Thread Will Tomlinson
Not for nothing (and I'm a very happy CT customer) but you won't get good service from CT on questions dealing with (most) software. They don't want to support it. ;^) You're exactly right. Just like when my CF mappings magically disappeared multiple times after I created them. I emailed

Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-19 Thread Casey Dougall
On Nov 19, 2007 9:50 AM, Yves Arsenault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been a Viviotech VPS and Dedicated server customer for some time now. I have no complaints. Yves Same here. I use viviotech vps and they are great at responding to support tickets and keep on top of other support related

Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-19 Thread Mik Muller
The cleaners? WTF is that? Mik At 03:27 PM 11/19/2007, Will Tomlinson wrote: Not for nothing (and I'm a very happy CT customer) but you won't get good service from CT on questions dealing with (most) software. They don't want to support it. ;^) You're exactly right. Just like when my CF

Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-19 Thread Mik Muller
The cleaners? WTF is that? Mik At 03:27 PM 11/19/2007, Will Tomlinson wrote: Not for nothing (and I'm a very happy CT customer) but you won't get good service from CT on questions dealing with (most) software. They don't want to support it. ;^) You're exactly right. Just like when my CF

Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-19 Thread Will Tomlinson
The cleaners? WTF is that? Heck, *YOU* tell ME! I have no idea... ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now

RE: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-19 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: Will Tomlinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 3:28 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts Not for nothing (and I'm a very happy CT customer) but you won't get good service from CT on questions dealing with (most

RE: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-19 Thread Mark A Kruger
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RE: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-19 Thread Dave Watts
You know Guy with a mop and a broom dusting in the server room, taking out the trash, fiddling with Coldfusion mappings... Same old story :) I figured it was this guy: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm606/ Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software

Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-19 Thread Azadi Saryev
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VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-18 Thread John Blayter
I am looking for a good VPS or Dedicated CF host. My budget is about $200 a month max. I have been having some serious issues with AHP hosting and I need to switch while I still can. Thanks for the recommendations! - John ~|

Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-18 Thread James Holmes
You can save a lot of that $200 with Viviotech for a VPS. You can get a decent dedicated server from them for around that price. On Nov 19, 2007 12:34 PM, John Blayter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a good VPS or Dedicated CF host. My budget is about $200 a month max. I have been

Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-18 Thread Azadi Saryev
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RE: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-18 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: John Blayter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 10:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts I am looking for a good VPS or Dedicated CF host. My budget is about $200 a month max. I have been having some serious issues

Re: VPS or Dedicated CF Hosts

2007-11-18 Thread Dave l
Do you have your own cfm license? That will play some part in the decision. I have had 3 vps server and they were ok, certainly better than shared but just recently moved to a big dedicated box and there is just no comparison IMO. But then again I got a pretty good setup and its more that 3x