[43605] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Thoughts on Shared Hosting Environments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rachel Luxemburg)
Fri Oct 19 17:32:21 2001
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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:31:35 -0700
To: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Rachel Luxemburg <rslux@link-net.com>
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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.
