ColdFusion Hosts

September 4, 2007 — Vincent Collins

I have for many years used Serverbeach.com for my ColdFusion hosting solutions. This is a company that provides excellent, high bandwidth, self managed hosting solutions. You choose the server hardware and then manage it all remotely. Serverbeach.com has been a wonderful, flexible hosting solution for me and I intend to continue to use them into the foreseeable future. Now I’m entertaining the idea of moving some of my hobby sites to a managed server solution so that I can just concentrate on the more important applications on my dedicated solutions. I’ve so far narrowed the choices down to one of two. CrystalTech.com and FusionLink.com

I’m looking for CF 8 hosting. A web control panel that allows the full management of domain parking and email administration. They must also provide web-based email as well as both pop and imap connections for my clients. I think I’m just going to have to bite the bullet and pick one. I hate these sorts of decisions. I sometimes tend to have buyers remorse.

Requirements:

  • CF8
  • Control Panel
  • Multiple Parked Domains / Multiple Domain level FTP accounts
  • Email for each domain parked (if possible)
  • Web-based email along with POP and IMAP connections
  • MS SQL Server
  • Connection to SQL Server via Enterprise Manager
  • Unlimited datasources
  • At least 5GBs web-based storage.
  • Daily Backups for web and SQL Server
  • Great uptime
  • Great Support (rarely needed hopefully)

If you have experience with either of these companies or would like to recommend another, please let me know.

Once I make a decision, I’ll be posting about my experience along the way.

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