This thread is the result of my query last week soliciting recommendations from users of server-side Java ISP providers. Pursuing my own research, I found that there are only about 70 such ISPs in the United States and the range of services - some define "Java support" as just applets (ignorance alert!), just JSPs but not servlets (ignorance alert!), just servlets (2.1, 2.2, and, rarely, 2.3), servlets and EJB (1.1 and, rarely, 2.0), and everything including JMS - require careful scrutiny. The platforms ranged from Tomcat, JBoss, and Resin to WebSphere, WebLogic and iPlanet (with one or two JRun's - ugh). JVMs can be dedicated or shared. Prices ranged from $280/year - over $2000/year. I think a website keeping an up-to-date listing of these ISPs and their offerrings would be of great service to the Java community.
For myself, I chose CQhost. For $280/year I have JSP 1.2, Servlets 2.3, EJB 2.0 on Resin Enterprise 2.1.1, PHP 4.2.1, ASP 3.6.2, MySQL 2.2.4, FTP, unlimited email, unlimited bandwidth, 750MB disk space, DNS, SSL, JDBC and CGI on a limited-shared (4 accounts max) JVM. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Milt Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 10:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Java Website ISP On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, esvehla wrote: > Milt in our efforts to be the leader in Java Centric hosting > services I want to solicit your comments and suggestions on how we > can best serve the Java community. We are ready to listen and learn > to provide outstanding Java support. Well, just by asking these questions and soliciting this input, you're off to a great start. I don't have a lot of experience using hosting services (of any kind, let alone with Java on the server), so I'm not sure I can offer much specific suggestions personally. The list of questions someone posted earlier in this thread was pretty good. I think the issue of how you separate different users but keeping good performance and security is a big one (e.g. multiple JVMs, multiple contexts, etc.). And it seems like the question of where to go for hosting services offering Java on the server comes up regularly on this list, so likely there are others who can offer suggestions. But it sounds like you're off to a good start, and maybe I'll be looking you up at some point in the future :-). > I also solicit everyone on this list who is looking for professional, > reliable and sensibly priced Java centric hosting services to provide us > your inputs. > > As a side not we are working to provide JBoss as well as WebLogic as > possible J2EE containers for a very low additional fee. As always > provide us feedback on what you are looking for and I can assure you we > will make it happen. > > Thanks for your time and I am sorry that this message has really been > off topic. It is our hope that we can further the Java cause through > our hosting services. > > Ernie Svehla > IntelliObjects Inc. > 888-317-3666 > www.intelliobjects.com Milt Epstein Research Programmer Systems and Technology Services (STS) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
