Mark Drew (Redux)- cf_etc...

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• 1 Unibands // Jun 9, 2009 at 4:05 PM

  I'm trial running this free month right now and I'm actually VERY impressed. The support are very fast. I'm a little confused though because I seem to have control of the Railo admin too. This is SWEET, but I'm pretty sure this might only be available to dedicated hosting? I'd eventually like to go on a shared server (because I'm cheap like that) so not sure what will happen when I ask them to upgrade me to the paid service.
  
  Either way, it feels good to be supporting something Open Source, even if it is in a very abstract and indirect way.
  
  I came from hosting with host my site and this is a lot cheaper. I was initially worried because I come from CF8 but then to my surprise discovered that Railo supports virtually everything CF8 does, and that suits me fine.
  
  I've also noticed my application runs faster under Railo, but this could be due to a number of reasons to be honest - still, it's a welcomed bonus.
  
  As long as the service keeps up and the costs stay lower than competitors I'll be here to stay.
  
  Gonna recommend it to everyone once I get my site going properly. (Just goes dead at the moment, haha).
  
  Mikey.

• 2 Mark Drew // Jun 9, 2009 at 4:18 PM

  Hi Mikey, you should be able to control the Railo admin, there is a "web" context that runs your site so any settings you change there only affect your site, this is one of the hosting features of Railo. So even if you and I share a server, we have our own admins (so I can setup a db for example)
  
  I presume you can ask NOW to go to a paid service, which I am presuming is $6.49 a month and you can check it out.
  
  Glad your application is running faster! Always pleased to hear that we provide good performance!

• 3 Unibands // Jun 9, 2009 at 6:35 PM

  Hi Mark, that sounds great. I wasn't aware Railo could allow admins on a per user basis...that's fantastic!
  
  I'll get round to upgrading the account at some point today.
  
  Thanks :)

• 4 Peter Amiri // Jun 10, 2009 at 11:23 PM

  Mickey,
  
  Mark is absolutely correct. Each website gets its own Railo administrator. Having a sandboxed administrator with every web context is one of the reasons we are so hyped on Railo for shared hosting. Anyway glad that the service is working out for you.

• 5 Dev // Aug 18, 2009 at 9:46 AM

  Hi Guys,
  
  I actually came across this site because I wanted Hostek.com to host a website I'd like organized for my gaming clan. We play Age of Empires and wanted to start having our own blogs, forums, uploading our recorded games etc.
  
  Right now my website is hosted by freewebs, but it is really horrible. I would like to test Railo and see how it performs, who can help me with this?
  
  I've got not problems with paying, if Hostek doesn't want to take me seriously, I'm just going to look around the block.

• 6 Peter Amiri // Aug 18, 2009 at 10:33 AM

  Dev,
  
  We can definitely help you out with the hosting. Just visit alurium.com and pick a plan to sign up for. If you run into any issues or have any other questions just open a support ticket and the support team will be happy to help.
  
  -Peter

• 7 Dev // Aug 18, 2009 at 9:12 PM

  Thanks Peter,
  
  I have two other questions though, what's epp and how can I get it?
  
  - Dev

• 8 Peter Amiri // Aug 18, 2009 at 9:49 PM

  Dev,
  
  I'm not quite sure I understand what you are asking. You have my email address, feel free to contact me off line and I'll see if I can help.
  
  -Peter

• 9 Hypnotherapy Nottingham // Aug 18, 2009 at 10:53 PM

  Would just like to say that my website : http://www.nottingham-hypnotherapy.com/ is currently hosted with Alurium and it works great unlike the last host we had! My son did a great Job.
  
  I don't really understand all this techie stuff but thanks all at Alurium and Railo!
  
  Amanda.

• 10 Peter Amiri // Aug 18, 2009 at 11:04 PM

  Amanda,
  
  Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad everything is working out for you.
  
  -Peter

• 11 Dev // Aug 19, 2009 at 4:15 AM

  Peter,
  
  I went on the site and was going through the options to start getting a website built and hosted by you guys. After saying that I already had a domain name, it asked me for the epp of that domain, I don't know what it is.

• 12 Peter Amiri // Aug 19, 2009 at 4:24 AM

  Okay now I know what you are referring to. If you have a domain name and select "I want to transfer my domain to Alurium Hosting", then the epp code will allow us to initiate a domain transfer to our registrar and setup the domain to point to our servers. You must log into the existing registrar to get the epp code. Alternatively you can select the option "I will update my nameservers on an existing domain Or I will register a new domain." and simply log into your registrar and change your domain name servers (DNS) to point to our DNS servers. The details will be in the welcome email you will receive.
  
  Mark sorry for hijacking your blog to do some tech support.

• 13 Mark Drew // Aug 19, 2009 at 4:31 AM

  No worries Peter, as long as the word is getting out there, I guess I should have put a promo code on the link eh? ;)

• 14 Stefan // Oct 27, 2009 at 6:42 AM

  Does it cost $6.75/mo per domain? Do you have people running hosting business on Railo, Is there a wholesale rate for this?

• 15 Peter Amiri // Oct 27, 2009 at 7:09 AM

  Stefan,
  
  You can definitely run a hosting business on Railo, we obviously are ;-)
  
  The thing to keep in mind is that the Basic plan was designed to let someone get a domain off the ground without a great cost up front. Because of the config files that need to be created for each activated domain to make the current control panel function it is defficult to run reseller accounts in the shared hosting environment.
  
  That being said, we have clients that are setting up individual accounts for each of their clients and using the service that way. We also have two seperate initiatives underway, one is a complete cloud hosting environment. We are pretty excited about this as it will allow the customers to purchase computing resources in bulk (i.e. CPU, disk space, and bandwidth) and allocate them to virtual servers as they like. So you could create a couple of DNS servers with very little resources alocatef to them and a main webserver with more resources. If you ever need more computing resources just upgrade the account and allocate the new resources. Like I said we are pretty excited about this new service and will be announcing it soon. We are also looking into possible new control panels for the shared hosting that would allow the automation we need to make reseller accounts possible. This is a longer term project though.
  
  So can you run a hosting business with our current plan offerings, yes, but would you want to do so with the Basic $6.75 account, probably not.
  
  If you have any further questions please feel free to open a pre-sale ticket from the site.
  
  -Peter Amiri

• 16 oyunlar // Jun 25, 2010 at 2:18 PM

  Mark is absolutely correct. Each website gets its own Railo administrator. Having a sandboxed administrator with every web context is one of the reasons we are so hyped on Railo for shared hosting. Anyway glad that the service is working out for you.

• 17 Russ // Jun 29, 2010 at 7:00 PM

  FREE railo hosting now available from www.cfmldeveloper.com
  As well as ColdFusion9, so easy to migrate between them if you need.

• 18 Çocuk oyunlar? // Jul 4, 2010 at 3:01 PM

  @Dev i have the same question, what's epp and how can I get it?

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