With Railo gaining more momentum now, I think we'll see some cheaper ColdFusion hosting options. And you get your own administrator!
Alurium has Railo hosting starting at $6.75/month (200MB storage, 5GB bandwidth). And a 60 day free trial. http://alurium.com -Ryan Paul Alkema wrote: > I love ColdFusion, but when people talk shared hosting there's no > comparative to between CF shared hosting and php shared hosting. > > Here is Mike Kear's Offer of CF Hosting According to his website. > > CF Shared Hosting > afpwebworks.com - Advertised Hosting Plan > Monthly price - $15/M > Disk Space - 20mb > Bandwidth - 500mb/mo > MySQL Databases - None > > PHP Shared Hosting > alkemadesigns.com/hosting - Advertised Hosting Plan > Monthly price - $4.95/M > Disk Space - UNLIMITED > Bandwidth - UNLIMITED > MySQL Databases - UNLIMITED > > I'm not insulting Mike Kear's offer.. at all, I actually think this is low > for coldfusion hosting. The matter of the fact is, is that good CF shared > hosting costs more than good PHP hosting. > > If I can get my clients to get a dedicated CF server I always encourage them > to do so, but if they can't afford it there is no comparison between PHP > shared hosting and CF shared hosting. Also, I think another downside to CF > shared hosting is the lack of control, between Cpanel, php.ini file and your > .htaccess file you have so much control of your hosting, but with CF hosting > in order to get things changed many times you have to call the hosting > company ask them to change IIS setting etc... > > My recommendation is, if you're looking for shared hosting, use a PHP server > and learn PHP. If your company can afford it, go with a dedicated CF server > because CF is so much easier to write, easier to read and development time > is so much faster. :) > > Paul Alkema > http://www.AlkemaDesigns.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:324108 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
