[thelist] Re: thelist digest, Vol 1 #1470 - 31 msgs

martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com
Mon Jul 9 09:28:14 CDT 2001


Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Eveline

I think a more robust interpretation is that they don't do PHP.

If I were a commercial hosting company (as opposed to an advertising
company which draws traffic by hosting sites (eg Geocities)), there is no
*way* I'd be offering db hosting for free.

Even if they're not paying the server licenses, the infrastructure (boxes,
db servers, bandwidth etc) all cost money.

If they're offering ASP & CF it's a fair bet that they're an NT/Win2k host.
If they don't offer any of PHP/Python/Perl it's unlikely that they'll have
any Unix offering.

However, if you're starting with Access, then a Windows solution is
probably
your only option - both CF and ASP are very simple to integrate with
Access.

The way an MS vendor like an NT/Win2k hosting co. will steer you as
an upgrade path is to SQLServer.

Cheers
Martin





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2) In Belgium you pay the same price for hosting at an ISP for an ASP or a
CF driven site (about $250 a year without the database, the same amount for
the database). Only PHP is not mentioned in their specifications. So I need
to find out immediately what it is going to cost. But since it is not
mentioned, I make the presumption it is probably free...

All this taken into consideration, I think PHP will be my best bet... IF
another question of mine is answered positively: at the moment I use a
simple Access database, is it possible to migrate to MySQL from an Access
database?

TIA

Eveline



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