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Any host servers supporting Foxpro and FoxWeb?
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24/10/2006 04:38:33
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Internet applications
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
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Thread ID:
01161412
Message ID:
01164229
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My economics are based on reality, not on a fantasy world where everything should be free... <s>

I'm sure somebody could go out and expend that energy and donate money and time to do this, but this is not something I'm particularily interested in. Running an ISP business is not like software development where the only costs are your time - you have to put up money up front - a lot of it to pay for the services you offer and the hardware you put up, so it's not like volunteering your time to provide a tool to the community.

>What I am trying to say is:
>There are many VFP desktop developers around which are, by default, potentialy VFP web developers. They need cheap, reliable and supported shared VFP webserver for easy and quick startup! This startup doesn't means website making money from 1st day, how could? Means few MB of space, means limited bandwith, means small traffic... No one commercial ISP can't offer this, because they are all in Your economics. I am suggesting to WWWC, AFP and FoxWeb makers to think about it, find some solution here: support the community, give developers chance to try VFP webtools online. After that, many of them will buy You licences and will go to the $49/month hostings or co-locate own server. And then will be enough VFP developers online and $49 will become acceptable 20$...

Software developers don't make ISPs. I couldn't possibly provide this service to my customers, running an ISP business is ton of work and requires significant startup costs and a knowledge set that I don't even pretend to have. You can't just run this stuff off a server out of your basement if you plan on hosting a large number of sites. You need a whole infrastructure in place to do this right and it's expensive. The only way ISPs can survive is by having lots of sites hosted and frankly the VFP market doesn't support that.
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