Hosting

About a month ago I bought a shared server account at hostmysite.com. They come highly recommended by the Coldfusion community and I definately want Coldfusion support, especially some tags that most providers prohibit, such as cfobject.

I first moved my ftp site over to this hosted account. I have users that send images back and forth to each other. Now, instead of all fighting for bandwidth on my DSL link to servers inhouse they now share a Huge pipe of bandwidth at my hosts site. I don't see a downside to this.

A few weeks ago I made the jump to a dedicated server. I haven't moved the ftp over to that site yet, but i am planning to host as much as I can. Hostmysite is awesome and for not much money I feel like we just hired a 24/7 systems admin. We also get security, backups, redundancy and many more features.

Having private company information off-site may seem scary to some but they are much better equipped to protect my data than I am. One guy can only do so much. Our company has grown to a point where we needed to hire additional IT staff. Hosting is a much more cost effective and reliable way of doing this. I am pleased so far.