[Hosting] "local" host needed

[Jon Carnes]

Your product is in the same niche as Spamcop.net.  You might want to
look at how they do things.  I've watched the company grow slowly over
about 5 years and the kid who started it did a great job.

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 17:16, Michael Mueller wrote:
> On Thursday 30 January 2003 15:48, Richard O. Hammer wrote:
> > Chris Hedemark wrote:
> > > On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 12:48 PM, Richard O. Hammer wrote:
> > >> I am developing an email service, which uses both a mail server
> > >> listening on port 25 and Tomcat listening on port 80.
> > >
> > > Richard, is the goal of your project going to be a proprietary product
> > > you want to sell, or an open source project?  That may have a lot to do
> > > with what kind of hosting is available to you.
> >
> > Probably it will be proprietary, but not necessarily so.  Here are the
> > considerations I see:
> 
> Developing a product is the easy part.  The harder and more mysterious part 
> is selling your wares.  Just because something is open source and free is no 
> guarantee that is will be used.  I am learning that people will gladly pay to 
> use well-known brand-name items.  It takes lots of money to create name brand 
> recognition.  Spending money on marketing scares me because of the difficulty 
> in measuring its effectiveness.
> 
> One of the big reasons I went with open source at www.ss7box.com is that I 
> did not want to shoulder product liability.
> 
> If I ever come up with another product/service idea, I'll make sure its got a 
> marketing plan and customer interest before I do any development.
> 
> There was a discussion on the main list recently about cheap hosting.  I 
> think that these people (http://www.inforelay.com/colocation.html) are worth 
> a looksee.  With your own box and IP address you can manage every port as you 
> see fit.  They are not local but then again why do you really need local 
> service?
> 
> -- 
> Mike Mueller
> www.ss7box.com
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