Peter... I'd suggest you contact some hosts directly. What they offer as a standard plan may not meet your needs, but given the nature of the site (providing a service to the blind), I would suspect that many would be inclined to offer you additional space over and above what's provided by default.
Make some phone calls and/or shoot off some e-mails. See who's willing to help out, and then narrow it down from there. I'd like to think you'd be pleasantly surprised. On 7/16/07, Peter Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Charlie and listers, > > I'll join this thread. I'm finding that most ColdFusion Hosting > companies while they offer support for many of CF's features they tend to be > quite stingy on disk space. During the National Federation of the Blind > Convention several weeks ago we established a new group called the National > Federation of the Blind Living History Group. One initiative of this group > is to digitize old recordings of past NFB events and place them on a Web > site for members and other interested individuals to listen to or download > to their hard drive, podcatcher, or whatever other device they have for > offline listening and storage. I've seen some hosting companies who offer > accounts with very generous amounts of disk space for a very cheap price; > 500 GB to be exact. This would be more than enough to meet our needs for a > good while, but they don't support ColdFusion. If anyone knows of CF hosting > companies offering accounts with similar amounts of disk space who won't > take us to the bank that would be wonderful! We have a service used to > support a number of our affiliate Web sites and discussion lists, but it > does not support ColdFusion. I tried running some CF code on that host, but > didn't get as much as an invalid parser construct error. It simply ignored > the CF code and displayed the page without executing anything. Our Sysop has > been great about allotting us the disk space we need for our affiliate Web > sites. A project of this nature would require us to have a large amount of > space for file storage which we can manage ourselves and have under complete > control of our group. Any suggestions for CF hosts that would meet our needs > would be appreciated. I all ready use Yetihost for some of my CF accounts > of paying customers, but even they are stingy on disk space not to mention > having to pay by the British pound instead of the Yankee Dollar. Again your > suggestions and recommendations will be very much appreciated. > > Peter Donahue > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charlie Griefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 4:27 PM > Subject: Re: Time for another CF hosting site thread... > > > for "fairly simple", basic and cheap, i use www.hostingAtoZ.com. > They're definitely cheap :) > > $20 a year gets you CFMX7 Enterprise and mySQL. $35 a year gets you > CFMX7 Enterprise and SQL Server2k5. And -very- few restrictions on > disabled tags/functions. > > since i've started mentioning them more frequently, i've set up a > siteuptime.com monitor (running since June 10). > > 99.432% uptime. > > http://www.siteuptime.com/statistics.php?Id=54549&&UserId=69175 > > Wrote about it more in-depth on my blog about a month ago. There are > also a few comments from other customers (and ex-customers) so you can > get a bigger picture. > > http://cfblog.griefer.com/index.cfm/id/hosting_a_to_z_inexpensive > > > On 7/16/07, Brian Yager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a client that wants a fairly simple website. I REALLY want to use > CFdynamics but I am not going to tell him it's $50/month just for CFFILE. > So...If you all can direct me to who you use, I will gladly look at them and > give you the referal. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brian Yager > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:283807 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4