Re: [NF] Virtual Server

2015-07-15 Thread Paul Hill
Amazon AWS is worth looking into. They have a free trial (1 year, limited usage). I was able to spin up Linux Windows VMs fairly easily. You pay for what you use (CPU, bandwidth, storage, etc) and can easily change this. -- Paul ___ Post Messages

Re: [NF] Virtual Server

2015-07-15 Thread Jeff Johnson
This customer, like most customers, have no IT personnel in house. On 7/15/2015 8:46 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: Kevin: Last time I checked $528 was less than $3300. The important issues for me is that I have an admin login

Re: [NF] Virtual Server

2015-07-15 Thread Kevin Cully
Are you using Active Directory for your user authentication? Is that how you're counting users? For my WWWC store, the users authenticate through a lookup to a user table and password table. Thus, my WWWC instance really is only using that 1 server user. I haven't asked Vultr about Windows

Re: [NF] Virtual Server

2015-07-15 Thread Stephen Russell
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: Kevin: Last time I checked $528 was less than $3300. The important issues for me is that I have an admin login to access and update my software. Also, install it. Also, does the $528 include 100 users?

Re: [NF] Virtual Server

2015-07-15 Thread Jeff Johnson
Mostly we are using Remote Desktop with security set up by the IT company. On 7/15/2015 8:26 AM, Kevin Cully wrote: Are you using Active Directory for your user authentication? Is that how you're counting users? For my WWWC store, the users authenticate through a lookup to a user table and

[NF] Virtual Server

2015-07-15 Thread Jeff Johnson
I have several customers using virtual servers with varied results. What I am looking for (for a customer) is a virtual windows server that will support 100 users in 30 states. They are using West Wind Web Connection for access from the remote states. They have my desktop application working

Re: [NF] Virtual Server

2015-07-15 Thread Stephen Russell
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: I have several customers using virtual servers with varied results. What I am looking for (for a customer) is a virtual windows server that will support 100 users in 30 states. They are using West Wind Web Connection for

Re: [NF] Virtual Server

2015-07-15 Thread Stephen Russell
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: Steve: This is a mature application installed in quite a few environments. I have not interest in re-writing it. The Rack Space suggestion is more like I am looking for. I want to use a service provider and don't want

Re: [NF] Virtual Server

2015-07-15 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 7/15/2015 8:00 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: Steve: This is a mature application installed in quite a few environments. I have not interest in re-writing it. The Rack Space suggestion is more like I am looking for. I

Re: [NF] Virtual Server

2015-07-15 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 7/15/2015 8:00 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: Steve: This is a mature application installed in quite a few environments. I have not interest in re-writing it. The Rack Space suggestion is more like I am looking for. I

Re: [NF] Virtual Server

2015-07-15 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 7/15/2015 7:48 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: I have several customers using virtual servers with varied results. What I am looking for (for a customer) is a virtual windows server that will support 100 users in 30 states.

Re: [NF] Virtual Server

2015-07-15 Thread Jeff Johnson
Kevin: Last time I checked $528 was less than $3300. The important issues for me is that I have an admin login to access and update my software. Also, install it. Also, does the $528 include 100 users? Thank you and I will check into them. On 7/15/2015 8:14 AM, Kevin Cully wrote: The times

Re: [NF] Virtual Server

2015-07-15 Thread Kevin Cully
The times have really changed. A short time ago this service wasn't a viable option. I'm currently half way through migrating West-Wind Web Connection shopping cart client from http://Hosting.com over to https://www.vultr.com/. He's currently paying over $300/mo and hoping to drop that to