Matt & Will, My host is CrystalTech. They had a June Special where the setup fees were waived and I got three free months of service. It was a deal I simply couldn't pass up. Formerly I was paying about $850 per month for two big 2-processor, mongo-memory servers at Cybercon. At CT, four of their peener-wiener servers are $79.95 each, totalling $319.80. Then my CF box is a dual Xeon, SCSI-driven box with 1gb for $259.95. Total monthly cost is 579.75 vs. the $852 i used to be paying. Saving $over $270 monthly, plus I got free setup for five servers, which was a $580 value. Plus the two free months, which was another $1700+. Like I said... could not pass it up despite the enormous amount of work involved in moving all my stuff over from A to B.
The CF server's specs look a little anemic compared to what I used to have, but across the board I found that I could do fine with less hardware since I was specializing the boxes the way I am. Also, backing up a server costs money over there, and if you have four servers it costs much more to back them up than it does to just get another freaking server and run Synchback from it... and back up your goodies yourself. My backup server is actually running an instance of mySQL (or actually it is running mySQL only long enough for the backup routine to pull a copy of the live files... something SqlYog Enterprise does a great job of handling). The O/S is Win2k3 Server (not Advanced) I would recommend this kind of setup to everyone. Its very affordable and highly effective. If you need to upgrade the db, or need more backup space or something you just add a bigger server, or look at what I have Box 2 doing. I could split that into two or even three more little servers and get a whole lot of bang for my buck, still. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Janitor, MSB Web Systems mysecretbase.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:259149 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
