Re: [cinjug-users] hosting

[Edward Sumerfield <esumerfd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you have lots of growth potential I would only choose the local guys if they have something like Amazon EC2. These days there is no reason to take on the expense of hardware. But don't limit your search to Amazon, there are lots of other cloud solutions out there with different levels of management services associated with them.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Mike Ball <mwball@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just wanted to make sure I gave the local guys a fair shot.
Especially if there was a cinjugger that did that for a living.  We'll
pick the best one in the end.

Thanks,
Mike

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:34 AM, jf <jfister@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mike,
> Does your hosting provider have to be local?  We have used a number of
> hosting providers before arriving at Rackspace.  They have been the only
> hosting provider that has ever met our standards.  Prior to using Rackspace
> we would find ourselves troubleshooting problems that we weren't certain if
> they were caused by our application services or by the networking
> infrastructure.  When we switched to Rackspace these problems disappeared.
> I'll stop now, since this is beginning to sound like an infomercial.  I
> promise that I have no vested interest in Rackspace; just a happy customer.
>
> Good luck!
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Mike Ball <mwball@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a good local hosting company?
>>
>> We've got a pretty simple setup, just JBoss, Apache and Oracle.  But
>> it's got heavy traffic and lot's of growth (hopefully).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mike