[OFBiz] Users - Expertise required

[Matthew E. Porter]

Contegix.com.  I'll send you more info off-list so that I don't turn 
this into a big advertisement.


Cheers,
   Matthew

On Sep 22, 2004, at 1:36 PM, <yaakovtemp at tbitechnologies.com> wrote:

>
> All,
>
> Thank you for all of your valuable input on this matter.
>
> Matthew, what's your company's website?
>
> Thanks.
>
> "Matthew E. Porter" <matthew.porter at metissian.com> wrote on 09/22/2004,
> 07:42:34 PM:
>> If interested, we (and probably the other hosting providers) provide
>> colocation.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>    Matthew
>>
>> On Sep 22, 2004, at 10:58 AM, bjfree at free-man.net wrote:
>>
>>> You can become the Hosting service by getting a server at a hosting
>>> company
>>> then load it up your self.
>>> Some hosting companies will let you even install your own server.
>>>
>>> You want one with redundant and possible co-location.
>>>
>>> Once you have brought up ofbiz on a machine, you can evaluate what 
>>> you
>>> need
>>> as a hosting environment.
>>>
>>> unlike most system, ofbiz is real-time, and is always active in
>>> background.
>>> it runs a sandbox at about ever second. So considerations about how
>>> many
>>> instances of ofbiz that can run on one server is a consideration.
>>>
>>> for a single user using the default db that runs within ofbiz allows
>>> you the
>>> freedom of moving the complete app with little problems. However if
>>> you have
>>> multiple clients on a machine I suggest postgresql as the db and put
>>> it on a
>>> separate server.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: yaakovtemp at tbitechnologies.com
>>> [mailto:yaakovtemp at tbitechnologies.com]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 2:36 AM
>>> To: OFBiz Users / Usage
>>> Subject: Re: Re: [OFBiz] Users - Expertise required
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> David,
>>>
>>> Ok, let me get away from hypothetical cases here and quote a plan
>>> directly and you tell me if OFBiz can be deployed using this plan.
>>>
>>> Before I do though, let me explain my situation and where I am coming
>>> from.
>>>
>>> 1) I am not standing up something that requires such an extensive
>>> enterprise solution. Just a small store.
>>> 2) I am doing it for free for someone for a number of reasons. One of
>>> those reasons is that I want to learn this stuff and then charge for
>>> this. This person will pay the cost of the hosting. However, I can't
>>> imagine he will pay $200 and up a month for just some 200 items that
>>> won't even sell that often. So, trying to pretend that he needs such
>>> power is pointless for this "client".
>>> 3) I can also see some potential clients that won't need anything 
>>> more
>>> than a small hosting plan. An online store that gets 500 hits a day
>>> can't possibly justify paying for $200 a month hosting. That's 
>>> besides
>>> paying for SSL...
>>>
>>> However, here are the details of a plan I picked (almost at random)
>>> from
>>> eapps.com. They have much better plans than this, but in my mind this
>>> should be enough for a site that's expected to get 100-500 hits a 
>>> day.
>>>
>>> The link to this is here:
>>> http://www.eapps.com/Docs/VPSStandardPrices.jsp
>>>
>>> Go to that link and look at the Standard Plus plan. It's only $20 a
>>> month. The SSL certificate from Thawte (for 1 year) is a one time fee
>>> of $200. I don't know about payment processor and I am not even too
>>> familiar with what that is at this point. (I am trying to learn all
>>> this from this experience.) From what I gathered out of nowpulse.com,
>>> it's another $20 a month. So, in the end, it's about $60 a month.
>>>
>>> Could you point out to me what is wrong with this setup? (For another
>>> $10 a month I can go to Standard Max and double the amount of
>>> guaranteed RAM : 128MB)
>>>
>>> I apologize if this is boring to all the major enterprise people who
>>> are
>>> standing up solutions for corporations and spending $300 a month on
>>> hosting is the least of their worries.
>>>
>>> I would, however, appreciate you pointing me in the right direction 
>>> on
>>> this.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Yaakov.
>>>
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