At 12:29 AM 9/23/98 -0500, you wrote:
>But I am looking for co-location. iserver says they are going to
>allow mod_perl but I don't see it happening. And I would like to be
>able to install whatever programs I want and this really isn't fully
>possible at iserver (but I think it is as close as you get).
>
>Someone mentioned interland.com and I looked at them. Gee, they seem
>to be offerring exactly what I want. Tech support and a connecton to
>a lan connected to the net. I see, in my crystal ball, a lot less of
>this virtual hosting. I see companies getting their own computers
>connected to the net so they can run whatever they want.
>
>What do you all think? Am I hallucinating?
Not as far as I'm concerned. More and more of our ecommerce-oriented
clients are going the colocation route. Folks who are just testing the
waters or who only want a basic business brochure site are still going the
shared hosting route, but the serious ecommerce folks want their own
machine. A big reason for this seems to be so they can set the machine up
as two domains, one for their live system and one for a staging system --
that way work on databases and scripts isn't being done on the live
money-generating site. Since we recently had a problem with live databases
on an ecommerce site, we are heavily pushing this idea at a few clients!
My favorite co-location company to date is Web Professionals in Cupertino
California. They have a unique collocation setup -- they basically lease
you the machine. The upside is that they deal with buying, configuring,
plugging in...all the crud that I hate to do. Info on their collocation
package can be found at ( http://www.serverhosting.net/complete/ ), and
their main web site is at (http://www.professionals.com/). Nice
folks...Sanjay (the president) has been doing this for years, and he has a
nice crew of young (i.e. "we don't need sleep") techies working for him who
are usually pretty good about responding to tech support questions and
dealing with rebooting NT machines <grin>. We have several clients hosted
there on shared hosting as well as a couple of collocated systems, and are
set up to resell one of their packages (but have only actually done that
for one client, since many of our clients are the type who'd call us first
at 3:00 am, rather than calling Web Professionals).
BTW, what's the correct format for the word that was originally appearing
as "co-location"? I've seen "collocation" a lot and have found myself using
it, even though it feels misspelled to me. However, "colocation" also feels
wrong to me. But nobody seems to use hyphens any more...even e-commerce has
smushed into ecommerce, e-mail is now email, and so on. Hmph...maybe I
should start a club for those of us who like and use hyphens. (Speaking as
one who's legal last name gets trashed by most forms, I encourage you
programmer types to make sure name fields are *long* and allow hyphens! Got
in a big fight with a company the other day who insisted that my last name
is HeathershawH ... if the IRS can get it right, there's no reason a
commercial business should screw it up.)
--Tamra Heathershaw-Hart
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