Thoughts on Shared Hosting Environments

Fri Oct 19 21:31:35 UTC 2001

Track which components are being asked for and consider supporting for the 
more popular ones. We did this when I was at Virtualscape and found it to 
be an easy way to differentiate your service and make customers happy.

At 02:04 PM 10/19/2001 -0700, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:

>Also, what are the groups opinions on web hosting customers who want to
>install custom ASP and COM components on a shared Windows 2000/IIS hosting
>server?  I'm having a debate with a sales dude over this issue.
>
>My opinion is that it potentially destabilizes all of the virtual hosts on
>that system.  When I hear "Can you install just a couple of ASP or COM
>components on my domain" my mind immediately goes to putting this customer
>in their own dedicated colo server.  I don't think its right to jeopardize
>several hundred virtual domains because one $19.99/month customer wants to
>load up a special .dll.  But that's just my rant, market conditions can
>dictate otherwise.