[Sorry if this is a repeat. I tried to send this a day or two ago but never saw it come through...]
Hey folks, I'm the webmaster for www.firstnight.org, Boston's New Year's celebration website. The site get's minimal traffic for most of the year but gets significant traffic for ONLY 30-31st (more than 200,000 page views or about 5.2 million hits). We are currently hosting with Communitech.net who are good but have no plans to upgrade from CF 4.5 or SQL Server 7.0. Also they have recently severely cut back on their traffic logging/reporting capabilities. They have handled the traffic very well however. Anyhoo we're looking to move: 1) We absolutely need decent traffic analysis/reporting. We using this data as the basis for fund raising and corporate sponsorship outreach. 2) I'd prefer SQL Server 2000 (7.0 is fine, but I'd like to personally try and get onto a universal for me platform). 3) I'd been considering CFMX, but am wary about that. My personal site (www.depressedpress.com) is hosted on MX and is often down. I'm not sure if that's an MX issue or a hoster issue (although I do like my hoster, crystaltech.net) 4) As a non-profit that nearly went bankrupt putting on a huge millennium celebration we're hoping to find a hoster willing to exchange sponsorship consideration for services. The event itself attracts several million people to Boston (it's one of the cities "big three" along with "Pops goes the Fourth" and the Boston Marathon) and a consideration package could be built to match the service costs. Right now we're paying $1,100 a year and, bluntly, would like to reduce/eliminate that if possible. So two questions: 1) Any ideas for hosts both willing to handle the traffic and meeting our technical needs? Perhaps even willing to work on a sponsorship basis? 2) Whadda ya think? CFMX or CF 5.0? I'm leaning for selfish reasons towards MX (allowing me to consolidate all my personal development) but fear it for this high-availability site (obviously a serious problem on the 31st is pretty much catastrophic). I'm considering approaching CrystalTech first (again the selfish consolidation angle). Any thoughts on them? Thanks in advance, Jim Davis President, Depressed Press of Boston: http://www.DepressedPress.com/ Webmaster, First Night Boston: http://www.firstnight.org/ Senior Consultant, Metlife eCommerce IT: http://www.metlife.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
