CF Dedicated Servers - feedback
Davey
I am the owner of The Explosive Network, and I'm looking for some community
feedback.
We are currently in the planning stages of some ColdFusion orientated
services, mainly dedicated CF servers.
I am a strong believer in trying to make my products what the community
wants. I've worked in recent months with both the PHP and Ruby communities
to try and bring together (as yes unreleased) services for them.
The service I wish to get your feedback on, is as follows:
P4 1.6Ghz CPU
1GB RAM
120GB Hard drive
200 - 500GB of bandwidth/month (not decided on that yet, but more than
likely around the 400GB mark)
These servers come with win2k server, and ColdFusion 5 Enterprise edition
installed.
You may choose between IIS and Apache webservers also.
You will be given admin access to the machine, and it will be co-managed by
us.
We have daily backups and services monitoring/auto-restarts
The price for this is to be:
$349/month - no minimum time contract (there will be concessions down to
$270/month with various time contracts)
With a $275 setup fee.
Also, apart from CF5 what else would you like to see on the server? PHP?
ASP? MySQL?, try to think low-cost, and we'll try to just add it in at no
extra cost to you! :)
- Davey
Jim Davis
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> The service I wish to get your feedback on, is as follows:
>
> P4 1.6Ghz CPU
> 1GB RAM
> 120GB Hard drive
> 200 - 500GB of bandwidth/month (not decided on that yet, but more than
> likely around the 400GB mark)
Just a suggestion, but CF, being a processor-bound application, would
benefit MUCH more from dual CPUs than from a single, fast CPU. A dual PIII
866 or 1000 would generally be much stabler under load than a single P4 at
any speed.
> These servers come with win2k server, and ColdFusion 5 Enterprise edition
> installed.
> You may choose between IIS and Apache webservers also.
CF MX would probably be more attractive at this stage in the game.
> You will be given admin access to the machine, and it will be co-managed
by
> us.
> We have daily backups and services monitoring/auto-restarts
>
> The price for this is to be:
> $349/month - no minimum time contract (there will be concessions down to
> $270/month with various time contracts)
> With a $275 setup fee.
>
> Also, apart from CF5 what else would you like to see on the server? PHP?
> ASP? MySQL?, try to think low-cost, and we'll try to just add it in at no
> extra cost to you! :)
Well, if it's dedicated server then I should be able to put anything I want
on it, right? ;^)
Personally if I were spend that much for a server I'd want SQL server 7/2000
on it (the remote management tools can't be beat).
But, cheaply, there are few things that might be nice/required: The MS XML
4.0 services, mail services (POP and SMTP), FTP (with full user management),
etc.
PHP/ASP/PERL would be nice although personally I've never NEEDED them there
are a lot of tools that do. It's nice to look at products from a
feature-set perspective rather than just an infrastructure need one.
Jim Davis
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Robert Cesar
Why not wait for Windows.NET server?
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Davey
more than adequate server, and using win.NET would only be a huge price
increase not leading to much performance increase.
I'll look into ASP.NET now, cheer
- Davey
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Robert Cesar
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