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Thread: JSP hosting
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09-20-2005, 03:23 PM #1WHT Addict
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JSP hosting
Why most hosts don't support it?
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09-20-2005, 04:36 PM #2Web Hosting Guru
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I think its due to the CPU overheads. We have it on our Windows Server using either ColdFusion MX 7 (JRUN) and special installs of Tomcat. The server loads can become very high.
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09-20-2005, 05:08 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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There are lots of places that do. But I'd guess that there are two issues. The first is that it is a supply and demand issue - not nearly as many people want it. The second is comfort - the hosters are use to PHP and don't have the time/inclination to learn something new - again, because there isn't the demand for it.
I'm sure you're going to also get the "slow / resource pig" arguments. I host all of my customers sites on a modest box (2GHz Celeron, 1GB memory) with a pretty bored CPU. A decently designed Java application scales just fine.
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09-20-2005, 07:31 PM #4Aspiring Evangelist
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I think its a supply/demand issue and also I don't think many hosts have people around that know how to run a secure and lean servlet container to server JSP. If you know how to do JSP well..it doesn't eat up that many resources.