Most of the web may be run of flinux server, but to date we have NEVER, NOT ONCE, had someone ask if we do Linux CF hosting. Every single customer/developer we have has developed on windows, and I can't imagine many cf developers running linux as their desktop OS.
Russ -----Original Message----- From: Munson, Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 November 2005 15:29 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF Hosting > Never, we don't do linux as we are a windows house. > The majority of people use windows anyway, especially for CF. I'll grant that most CF users use Windows, and even that most people use Windows. But in web servers it is a slim margin. Netcraft reports that ~71% of web servers run apache: http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/200511/byserver/index.html I found an article that stated that 50% of Apache is on Linux: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6065/1/ IIS has ~20% of the web server market share (Netcraft). If you do the math, putting the Apache Windows installs together with the IIS installs, it adds up to 55% of the web servers in total. So, somewhere between 40-45% of the web is not on Windows (who knows what OS all the 'other' web servers are on?). The majority of the web is on Windows, but choosing to be a "windows house", you are cutting out 40-45% of your potential market. If you had 10 customers come up to you tomorrow and ask for hosting, you'd have to turn away 4 or 5 of them because you don't offer Linux. From my experience, most of the hosts out there give their customers an option between Windows or Linux. Again, I realize that the large majority of CF sites are on Windows, so if you are focusing on CF hosting, then Windows is a good bet. :) ----------------- [INFO] -- Access Manager: This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. A2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:224948 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
