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The Laughing Cow
08-23-2002, 06:36 PM
Linux hosts are two-a-penny these days, do you think there is a particular niché for feature-rich, low cost, high feature windows hosting? I find the lack of decent windows hosts abismal.

AL-Benjamin
08-23-2002, 06:57 PM
i think it will remain a neiche all the time that microcrud keeps its prices so hi.

akashik
08-23-2002, 10:38 PM
There are a lot of Windows hosts around - just not too many on this forum. 'Low Cost' is the key here. From all I've seen setting up a Windows server costs a little more than good old open source, so it would be wise to check your profit margin :)

Greg Moore

NetXL
08-23-2002, 10:51 PM
As Greg mentioned, Windows servers cost quite a lot more to setup. Feature-rich will cost more than you think. ;) ColdFusion and server applications like that definitely don't come cheap, and from what i've seen use up more system resources than most unix server software. I know of one host that does very cheap Windows hosting, not sure how they're doing it. They've been around for a while too - Terry please contact me if you would like the URL.