Re: Juglist Digest, Vol 15, Issue 6

No specific host recommendation, but a small checklist item: I always go 
to Netcraft.com for a site report.  It can often give you an idea of the 
uptime, history of changes to the service, and other interesting 
characteristics.



Ken wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:32:51 -0500
> From: "Ken Auer" <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Juglist] What hosting service?
> To: <[email protected]>
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> This question seems to come out about once per quarter, and every quarter
> the answers vary.  So, my turn to ask the question this quarter.
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> I am looking for a place to host a J2EE app, with a Tomcat server (probably
> on Apache).  We are using Sails as our web application framework, Hibernate
> and MySql for the DB.
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> This isn't going to be high volume, but we need it to be extremely reliable
> and snappy at an affordable price (it's a service for a small niche that
> probably will be generating no more than a few thousand dollars per month,
> so don't want to pay $1,000/month for hosting).  We're confident in our code
> base (test-driven), now we need a host that has reliable service in keeping
> the lines open to the rest of the world.
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> So, what's the latest opinions/experiences out there?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Ken
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