Re: [Plone-users] Re: Looking for Plone host providers

[george d. <li...@ze...>]

[Gerry Kirk wrote (ger...@al...) on 2/11/03 2:00 PM]

> Thanks for the suggestions, George, especially considering you work for
> Zettai. :)

heh heh

> This is my big concern. There just aren't that many Zope providers, and
> those that provide the service charge more than twice as much as a
> typical PHP/Perl offering.

You also get twice (or more) as much. Zope is a complete application server
environment comparable to cold fusion in some respects. Its a much more
complete environment than PHP/Perl/MySQL.

Zope also uses lots of  processor time and RAM which is one reason why its a
bit more expensive and will probably never be as widely available as
PHP/MySQL hosting as its simply more complicated.

> I feel a bit vulnerable at the thought of moving to Zope/Plone and
> having only a handful of hosting options.

I'm certain you'll see the number of providers growing. I've already seen a
significant growth in the last year. And as Martin noted, you can always set
up your own server, be it a virtual OS (FreeBSD jail, VDS, etc.) which I
have seen as cheap as $30 to $60/month or your own dedicated server which
you can get for as little as $89/month.

Additionally, you can always harvest your data from zope if you wanted to
move to a different platform. Its not a simply operatiion but its feasible
and there are lots of ISP's that support Python CGI so any investment in
learning Python would not be lost.

hth

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