You also have to look at what the market will bear. You will most likely be able to charge more for a VPS as they are getting more than just app isolation. I think the CFMX J2EE benefit would be a hard sell to potential hosting customers. Therefore, it is not so much your cost per month, but your profit after expenses.
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 4:29 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CrystalTech says ALL variables must be locked I don't know - it seems like more hosts offering VPS are limiting themselves to 4 instances per physical machine (at about $200 a month). I would guess on the same machine you could host 8-12 instances of MX just as comfortably for $70-$100 per month (with all the trimmings of course). Performance for a such a solution may be better than a VM solution (then again it may not be) and it would most likely be cheaper to set up/maintain from the hosts perspective (for a VM you need an OS license for example). So the cost seems about the same or cheaper to me - it's soley a case of whether the market will respond to it. Jim Davis > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 5:25 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CrystalTech says ALL variables must be locked > > > I agree. For hundreds of sites, nope. For a fewer number, yes. I > > expect that we'll soon start seeing both offered, depending on what > > you need (and what you'll pay for). > > I don't know; it seems that there's little room for it to be a viable > shared hosting solution. If you have the kind of machine that can > handle it, you might be better off with true separation through > virtualization - something > along the lines of the VMware GSX and ESX server products. If not, you'd > probably be better off with dedicated hosts. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > voice: (202) 797-5496 > fax: (202) 797-5444 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
