But not all.  My hosting company, for what I regard as reasonable  
monthly prices (10/20/30),
provides VMs running CentOS 5 with memory spaces of 160MB, 288MB, or  
432 MB,
and have generally been pretty knowledgeable when I ask support  
questions:
per Andre & Johnathan Swift, they only make "modest proposals".

--Ken

On Dec 2, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote:

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> Mark,
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> Mark Thomas wrote:
>> hdisgr8 wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> I would like our hosting company to host a server which needs  
>>> Tomcat.
>>> Apparently Tomcat is not supported as the hosting company found it  
>>> to be an
>>> 'excessive drain on resource'. What might they mean by this?
>>
>> One or more of:
>> - they are clueless and you need to find a better hosting company
>> - their previous customers were clueless and wrote inefficient web
>> applications
>> - their previous customers were clueless and used up significant  
>> amount of
>> support time with Tomcat configuration questions
>> - they don't want the overhead of supporting another technology
>> - ...
>
> I would add that many hosting companies these days are selling VM- 
> based
> services with small memory spaces. You just can't run a decent J2EE  
> app
> on 64MB of (total) memory, while running a PHP-based app in that same
> space just might work.
>
> - -chris
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