Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a commercial Zope hosting service for me. I've looked at the resources page on zope.org, and I have a couple feelers out, but I'd like to ask the community for recommendations as well. Requirements: I need a system that can handle a potentially very heavy load, though at first it will be quite small - we're a startup and have no customers yet. Location: We're in the northeast USA and most of our users will probably be in the US as well, so I'd prefer a service in North America. Zope: 2.2 at least, and access to install new products and external methods. I'm currently on codeit.com, but they have zope 2.1 and I need zope >= 2.2 so I can use my custom product derived from PTK 0.9. Storage: We're doing things with digital images - *big* ones - so we need to start at about 100 MB and will need to grow; we'll be storing a *lot* of data for our users. Eventually (probably not until later in 2001) we'll need MUCH more - possibly up to 1 GB eventually. (Beyond that point we will probably just rent a server at rackspace.com or somewhere but first we need to be able to develop a big enough customer base to pay for it.) Data transfer: Several times greater than storage. Users will upload large files which we will then download to our local network, so that's at least 2x our storage needs, plus there's the transfer involved in just using the site. Pricing: since our storage requirements will be continually growing, I'd like a payment plan that enables us to pay for the storage we need and add more as needed. -- ................. paul winkler .................. slinkP arts: music, sound, illustration, design, etc. web page: http://www.slinkp.com A member of ARMS: http://www.reacharms.com
Try http://www.rackspace.com. You can start off with a 600 MHz, 128 MB Ram, 30 GB EIDE drive for about $300 a month. They have great support and bandwidth and claim to be the largest installed base of RH Linux. They also scale pretty well. I have about 10 boxes with them for about year now. Cheers, J
From: Paul Winkler <slinkp23@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:15:51 -0400 To: Zope mailing list <zope@zope.org> Subject: [Zope] Hosting?
Hi,
I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a commercial Zope hosting service for me. I've looked at the resources page on zope.org, and I have a couple feelers out, but I'd like to ask the community for recommendations as well.
Requirements:
I need a system that can handle a potentially very heavy load, though at first it will be quite small - we're a startup and have no customers yet.
Location: We're in the northeast USA and most of our users will probably be in the US as well, so I'd prefer a service in North America.
Zope: 2.2 at least, and access to install new products and external methods. I'm currently on codeit.com, but they have zope 2.1 and I need zope >= 2.2 so I can use my custom product derived from PTK 0.9.
Storage: We're doing things with digital images - *big* ones - so we need to start at about 100 MB and will need to grow; we'll be storing a *lot* of data for our users. Eventually (probably not until later in 2001) we'll need MUCH more - possibly up to 1 GB eventually. (Beyond that point we will probably just rent a server at rackspace.com or somewhere but first we need to be able to develop a big enough customer base to pay for it.)
Data transfer: Several times greater than storage. Users will upload large files which we will then download to our local network, so that's at least 2x our storage needs, plus there's the transfer involved in just using the site.
Pricing: since our storage requirements will be continually growing, I'd like a payment plan that enables us to pay for the storage we need and add more as needed.
-- ................. paul winkler .................. slinkP arts: music, sound, illustration, design, etc. web page: http://www.slinkp.com A member of ARMS: http://www.reacharms.com
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At 10/26/00 03:39 PM, J. Atwood wrote:
You can start off with a 600 MHz, 128 MB Ram, 30 GB EIDE drive for about $300 a month. They have great support and bandwidth and claim to be the largest installed base of RH Linux. They also scale pretty well. I have about 10 boxes with them for about year now.
Although attractive at the low end, the rackspace price seems to jump rapidly. Move to a dual processor, 512MB, weekly backup and you arrive at a price about double what DellHost charges. So we're currently trying DellHost (which is somehow linked up with Interliant). While it is too early to give satisfaction rating, DellHost was not too swift administratively getting the server set up initially and we've had some bandwidth/connectivity issues. -- Dennis Nichols nichols@tradingconnections.com
You could DIY: I bought myself a server (256Mb RAM, 20Gb RAID1, Athlon Thunderbird 850Mhz) and I'm getting it colocated at one of the best-wired places in the UK. The bandwidth can be upped on a month-by-month basis. This way you get full control over everything. My costs: server ?650 (that's about $500 I think) hosting ?37.50 / month for 1 Gb / 512k burst (about $30) time to set it all up :S Of course, the hosting gets *much* cheaper as you buy more, but this scheme suits the way I intend to grow. I believe hardware and bandwidth is even cheaper in the states, so why not consider something like that? seb.
-----Original Message----- From: pw@bestweb.net [mailto:pw@bestweb.net]On Behalf Of Paul Winkler Sent: 26 October 2000 20:16 To: Zope mailing list Subject: [Zope] Hosting?
Hi,
I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a commercial Zope hosting service for me. I've looked at the resources page on zope.org, and I have a couple feelers out, but I'd like to ask the community for recommendations as well.
Requirements:
I need a system that can handle a potentially very heavy load, though at first it will be quite small - we're a startup and have no customers yet.
Location: We're in the northeast USA and most of our users will probably be in the US as well, so I'd prefer a service in North America.
Zope: 2.2 at least, and access to install new products and external methods. I'm currently on codeit.com, but they have zope 2.1 and I need zope >= 2.2 so I can use my custom product derived from PTK 0.9.
Storage: We're doing things with digital images - *big* ones - so we need to start at about 100 MB and will need to grow; we'll be storing a *lot* of data for our users. Eventually (probably not until later in 2001) we'll need MUCH more - possibly up to 1 GB eventually. (Beyond that point we will probably just rent a server at rackspace.com or somewhere but first we need to be able to develop a big enough customer base to pay for it.)
Data transfer: Several times greater than storage. Users will upload large files which we will then download to our local network, so that's at least 2x our storage needs, plus there's the transfer involved in just using the site.
Pricing: since our storage requirements will be continually growing, I'd like a payment plan that enables us to pay for the storage we need and add more as needed.
-- ................. paul winkler .................. slinkP arts: music, sound, illustration, design, etc. web page: http://www.slinkp.com A member of ARMS: http://www.reacharms.com
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