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At 03:19 AM 12/15/2004, Erik Thorsen wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font face="arial" size=2>Hello
Paul!<br>
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[From your post on WebHostingTalk.com,] I saw that you are a skilled
OpenCms person!!
</font><font face="wingdings" size=2>J</font><font face="arial" size=2>
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I was wondering if you could give me some free advice on web hosting
companies supporting the OpenCms standard?<br>
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I am not looking at paying 200 USD per month for such, just look for the
best, cheapest basic hosting solution. </font></blockquote><br>
Erik,<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Several
companies offer OpenCMS hosting. Some of them are listed on the OpenCMS
"solutions providers" page:<br>
<a href="http://www.opencms.org/opencms/en/support/solution_providers/index.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.opencms.org/opencms/en/support/solution_providers/index.html<br><br>
</a>There, I suggest that you especially look at the listing for MIVITEC
GmbH
(<a href="http://www.mivitec.de/" eudora="autourl">http://www.mivitec.de/</a>),
a German company. If you find out what MIVITEC charges for OpenCMS
hosting, please let me know.<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Here is a
relevant discussion:<br>
<a href="http://opencms-forum.de/viewtopic.php?t=256&highlight=webhost " eudora="autourl">http://opencms-forum.de/viewtopic.php?t=256&highlight=webhost
</a> <br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>In this
vein, I would like to say that I shall soon begin hosting OpenCMS. I will
probably charge far more than 200 USD per month, however, because my
costs will probably be at least that much (that is, at least $200 per
month per computer). After all, the current, production version of
OpenCMS (version 5.x) does _not_ support virtual hosting, which the
OpenCMS developers call "multi-site hosting." Furthermore,
OpenCMS consumes a great deal of resources (especially memory) because it
requires an RDBMS as well as a servlet container, which would make
virtual hosting difficult (even if virtual hosting were
possible).<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Does
anyone on the OpenCMS-dev mailing list have an idea of what would be a
reasonable price for hosting OpenCMS? When answering this question,
please consider that I plan to help my hosting customers considerably. I
shall _not_ merely provide them with an installation of OpenCMS. Rather,
I plan to help them administer OpenCMS, develop under it, and integrate
it with other development tools (e.g., Struts and perhaps Matt Butcher's
Velocity module for OpenCMS). Furthermore, I plan to administer Tomcat,
MySQL, and Linux, too, because many Java developers know little about
administration, for example, web administration or database
administration.<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>With
respect to the pricing of CMS hosting, an important factor to keep in
mind is the price that the competition is charging. The
"leading" CMS application service provider (ASP) in the USA,
Crown Peak, charges a minimum of 3,000 USD ($3,000) per month for its CMS
services. See
<a href="http://www.crownpeak.com/" eudora="autourl">www.CrownPeak.com</a>.
I believe that it also charges an initial, "set-up" fee of
several thousand US dollars. Furthermore, Crown Peak's software is not
open source, so you cannot modify it or develop modules for it (as you
can with OpenCMS), and you probably could not easily migrate your content
from their servers to another hosting provider's servers, as you can with
OpenCMS.<br><br>
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Looking forward to hearing from you!<br>
<br>
Best regards, <br>
<br>
Erik Thorsen <br>
Webverksted.no</font></blockquote></body>
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