If i'm not mistaken the cost of CF is per 2 physical cpu's, so if you have a dual processor system you spend $1300 then say you throw 4 VPS systems on that box.This means that each VPS is responsible for $325 ( $1300 / 4 ) of the cost of ColdFusion Standard OR $1875 For CF ENT. Span each of these over 4 months and you've got $81.25 a month for Standard and $468.75 for ENT. After the first 4 months it's profit minus other costs.
AND treating it like a shared hosting environment, after you've got the license paid off then the next VPS on the box will be $0 CF cost. I know some hosting companies that are planning major VMware roll outs and see this as a very viable alternative to new boxes. I personally would go with the $70 VPS IF you have some sys admin experience or know you'll get good support from the company or other resources. I'm a control freak though and hate shared hosting. jonese On 9/23/07, John Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The $30 deal seems silly. Why only one database? > > I personally don't like the VPS options that several of the other hosting > companies are now offering as being even remotely reasonable. Here goes my > rant on VPS... > > At $70 per month, they have to be cutting a lot of corners to make that > economical. For example, CF Standard costs $1300, it would take over 18 > months just to recoup the cost of CF? With server/bandwidth/resources > included over 2 years. Either the resources they give you would be > seriously > limited and/or they have to be overloading the servers to make this > profitable. Putting way too many VPSs on one server. Several people here > have noted the bad performance from VPS. > > One other point, is most hosters will give you complete control (basically > terminal service access) to the box. Do you really want this? You might be > a > good programmer, but are you also a solid system administrator? Do you > really want to carry that load as well? Then think, others have the same > access to their servers. Now you have even higher security concerns to > deal > with in relation to that. If they have firewalls protecting you from the > outside. Do they also have firewalls protecting you from other VPSs? If > their control panel can't handle most server setup functions then frankly > it > should. Then ask yourself, if your VPS does go down. Who has to do the > rebuild. Do they simply provide a fresh VPS instance and leave you to set > everything back up? There's a lot to consider when they offer you enough > rope to hang yourself with. > > I'm not going to sale you on FusionLink here. If you like, I can address > you > on our options off list. I just want to point out VPS might not be as good > of a deal as it seems. > > John Mason > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 770.337.8363 > > www.FusionLink.com - ColdFusion and Flex hosting > Now offering ColdFusion 8 Enterprise hosting > FREE Subversion hosting > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289232 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
