Web hosting requirements etc...

[Chatterjee]

Hey guys,
Here's the situation: I'm starting a web hosting firm here in Houston and wanted to get an impression from the technical community about what requirements would be appealing to web designers/corporations for a good hosting setup.

Here are the requirements I have down so far:

ASP/PHP/ColdFusion support
Database support (both MySQL and SQL Server) (with ODBC and DSN capabilities)
FTP access
SSL

Should I have capped storage space and bandwidth usage? What else should I worry about to set my firm apart from other hosting companies out there?

Thanks in advance!

-S

 

[DAM]

definetly ASP and SQL, also one thing ive noticed is front page extensions or something like that, i cant really remember what it is. dont forget cgi, as well as email addressess and stuff like that. look around to the other host and see what they offer, one of my favs is hostsave.com.



good luck and let me know, i might be interested.





dam()

 

[Sunner]

Perl and PHP3/4 definately.

 

[Chatterjee]

I'd like to keep my customers options open by definitely having at least ASP/PHP/Perl support on the site.

How are FrontPage extensions installed on Windows 2000 Server?

 

[Agaemmon]

I've always heard that it is a b**ch to get perl/cgi to work on Win2k and NT. Also, a good faq and easily navigable site help. I have never had a problem with even 5 megs of space, but slow sites and no bandwith get on your nerves.

 

[Chatterjee]

I've had (some) but not too many problems getting Perl/CGI to work in the Windows environment. Is unlimited web space appealing or would something like 100 megs of space be a turn-off to potential customers?

-S

 

[Sunner]

For space, offer different options for different prices.
As for Perl/PHP on a Win2K box, dont go that way, just get one Win2K box, and one Solaris/Linux.

 

[Train]

Win 2k with the .NET SDK will handle all of the above languages.

the .NET framework handles scripts from 17 languages in one engine (or set of them), which is really smooth, more recent versions of NT and Win2k have actually been known to run Perl scripts faster than most Unix/Linux versions can.

If you really want to plan for the future, look into the Windows 2000 datacenter with SQL Server 2000, dont let people tell you Oracle is better, bah.