Dear all,
I can not see how zope hosting in itself will ever pay for its cost.
In the case of a fully automated setup + administration + maintaining it would be possible, and that is what we should consider to build. Joachim, I never intended any offense considering iuveno prices, but you have to admit that hosting with a LAMP installation is much cheaper (that is the _only_ reason for running my sites with PHP/MySQL). And if you are running non/half-commercial sites that is a point to consider... or renting a dedicated server.
However we may not expect zope to become widely used if there is no easy access to hosting services.
Yes I agree and this is real problem for the popularity of Zope. It is a discrepancy between the easy setup/usage of zope and finding an appropriate hoster... I would enjoy statements from Zopists outside Germany/Switzerland - just for the case it is a *local* problem.
them a fertil ground to sprout. Hosting Zope I believe could be such a soil.
I am sharing this belief and have a lot plans to reach this goal...
That said, I willingly help for any attempt to make Zope hosting easy.
I would join such an attempt too... C U Reto -- Reto M. Kiefer | New Media Solutions Gluckstrasse 4 60318 Frankfurt/Main Germany Tel.: +49 (0)69 59794874 Email: reto@codedculture.com Web: http://www.codedculture.com