[Zope] beehive zope hosting (OT?)

[Robert Rottermann]

Hi Joachim,
can you talk a bit how you did that automatic creation of accounts ??

Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joachim Werner" <joe@iuveno-net.de>
To: <Zope@zope.org>; "Jan Lentfer" <jan.lentfer@web.de>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] beehive zope hosting (OT?)


> Hello!
>
> > The german company beehive stopped hosting Zope!!!!
>
> > Why? I mean it's been the only company in germany (as far as I know) who
> > were hosting Zope.
>
> As Reto pointed out in another posting, both iuveno (that's us) and
> Lightwerk still offer Zope hosting. I think that our pricing is also quite
> o.k. We talked with Mark from beehive, and he promised to inform customers
> who need a new home for their Zope sites about our services.
>
> I can't comment on beehive's reasons for stopping hosting, but I can tell
> you a bit about our situation:
>
> We started with setting up accounts by hand, which is rather
time-consuming.
> If you sell a full Zope account for less than 50 dollars a month, this is
> not very attractive. For us, the hosting business is not (yet) a major
> stream of income.
>
> But: Now we have automated most of the process, and we are planning to
> invest more into it, like offering product installs of pre-tested Zope
> product packages right from the Zope Management Interface, and high-end
> solutions like ZEO-based systems that automatically scale with the site's
> hit rate.
>
> We think that plain Zope for the masses will never become an interesting
> business. Most of our current customers are web developers that re-sell
the
> site as part of a design/development contract, or businesses who are doing
> their own Zope development.
>
> I mean, a plain HTML web account just costs 5 dollars a month in Germany.
> And most of the people who spend that on having a web site up and running
> are not intersted in programming the site. They just want to be able to
use
> a web editor and upload the stuff.
>
> The situation might change with ready-to-run CMS systems for Zope ...
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> iuveno AG
>
> Joachim Werner, CEO
>
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