This week's book giveaway is in the General Computing forum. We're giving away four copies of Arduino in Action and have Martin Evans, Joshua Noble, and Jordan Hochenbaum on-line! See this thread for details.
We're going to be writing an article for our newsletter evaluating different JSP / Servlet hosts in hopes to make the process of choosing one a bit easier. The hardest thing is to figure out where to start! So -- here's my nice informal survey to help us get started: 1- Who do you use to host your Web Application? (include their URL please) 2- What do you feel are the most important quatlies of a hosting company? 3- What questions do you ask a hosting company before you decide if you'll use them or not? 4- What do you use your website for? Personal? Business? Academic? Other? 5- How "big" is your website? MB's and hits/month (about) 6- What do you LOVE about your hosting company? 7- What do you HATE about your hosting company? 8- Have you ever changed hosting companies? why? Thanks!!
1- Who do you use to host your Web Application? (include their URL please) mmaweb.net 2- What do you feel are the most important quatlies of a hosting company? Value for price. This includes such intangibles as what kind of support you get over just what features you can get. 3- What questions do you ask a hosting company before you decide if you'll use them or not? The usual around level of service, feature set, and to what degree I can muck around with the config of my own area. 4- What do you use your website for? Personal? Business? Academic? Other? Personal and business. 5- How "big" is your website? MB's and hits/month (about) All my sites are currently small-footprint/low-bandwidth/moderate-DB sites. 6- What do you LOVE about your hosting company? Responsive support. 7- What do you HATE about your hosting company? Don't hate anything. But the servers could be faster. 8- Have you ever changed hosting companies? why? Yes. Either poor support, or inability to obtain a private JVM for a reasonable price. bear [ October 29, 2003: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ] [ October 29, 2003: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]
1- Who do you use to host your Web Application? (include their URL please) Last two client projects have been hosted in-house. I started filling in the rest of the questions, but they're not very relevent after the first answer
Here's the answer to my own survey: 1- Who do you use to host your Web Application? (include their URL please) www.cqhost.com 2- What do you feel are the most important quatlies of a hosting company? Responsive and knowledgable support, quick and reliable network 3- What questions do you ask a hosting company before you decide if you'll use them or not? What hours is support available and how? What's the guaranteed response time? 4- What do you use your website for? Personal? Business? Academic? Other? Business - a small non-profit company 5- How "big" is your website? MB's and hits/month (about) 50 MBs, traffic is seasonal -- but peaks at about 26,000 hits/month 6- What do you LOVE about your hosting company? Haven't noticed any down time 7- What do you HATE about your hosting company? I'm getting more and more dissappointed in their support, it take a few repeat emails over a couple days to get a reply. No phone support. 8- Have you ever changed hosting companies? why? Yup -- I dropped IMhosted.com because their support was TOTALLY unresponsive the 1st time I had a problem. Luckily as soon as I said I wanted to cancel, they replied within an hour.
1- Who do you use to host your Web Application? (include their URL please) Re-invent Techonologies =>http://www.re-invent.com/ 2- What do you feel are the most important quatlies of a hosting company? I can host both ASP.NET and JSP/Servlets My request/questions were processed in 5mins - 30mins time. All updates were installed upon avaliablity Supports all the package that a typical jsp-servlets application needs Has both MS Sql Server and mySQL 3- What questions do you ask a hosting company before you decide if you'll use them or not? I checked their FAQ and it covered all my general doubts. 4- What do you use your website for? Personal? Business? Academic? Other? Information site. 5- How "big" is your website? MB's and hits/month (about) 40MB. 60 unique visitors per week. 6- What do you LOVE about your hosting company? Good client support. 7- What do you HATE about your hosting company? Costly but no other techinical complaints 8- Have you ever changed hosting companies? why? No. Regards Balaji
------------- 1- Who do you use to host your Web Application? (include their URL please) http://www.1pro.biz ------------- 2- What do you feel are the most important quatlies of a hosting company? Features for the price. Friendly & knowledgable support (real humans on the other side of the wire) ------------- 3- What questions do you ask a hosting company before you decide if you'll use them or not? Server uptime, what is the turn-around time for support questions.. ------------- 4- What do you use your website for? Personal? Business? Academic? Other? Private auction site made using jsp... drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture, crafts, ceramics... ------------- 5- How "big" is your website? MB's and hits/month (about) 600 megs (lots of big .jpg's)... around 10 gigs/month ------------- 6- What do you LOVE about your hosting company? Friendly, responsive support. My site is fast and no downtime since being transferred to 1pro ------------- 7- What do you HATE about your hosting company? There is no support on sundays.... can't send big files via email.. no phone support..... ------------- 8- Have you ever changed hosting companies? why? I used [confidential].. up until the point where my "mysql" database disappeared... omg... ...I got so angry and so frustrated ... .....I lost 2 weeks of my auctions... then I decided to change companies.
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
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