[Tony]

It appears as if finally cPanel's Enkompass panel for windows is coming out. So I ask is anyone even interested in windows hosting?

Here's their overview page: http://www.cpanel.ne...s/overview.html

It has quite a few advantages over it's linux based version. It supports multiple servers properly right out of the box. So we can run multiple web servers, multiple mail, multiple SQL ect. So it's quite easy to build out a much more scalable infrastructure.


As far as if we'll offer and if so when? Well that's totally up in the air as we're looking at the interest in it first of all. The second is being able to properly invest and create an infrastructure that will provide the quality necessary to offer the windows hosting using encompass.

[Gmaper]

Tony said:

It appears as if finally cPanel's Encompass panel for windows is coming out. So I ask is anyone even interested in windows hosting?

Gee, Tony. Are you suggesting that there is a companion to Cpanel's Enkompass

It doesn't matter to me how you spell it. I'm not interested. I have enough problems with Windows as is.

[Tony]

Gmaper said:

Gee, Tony. Are you suggesting that there is a companion to Cpanel's Enkompass

It doesn't matter to me how you spell it. I'm not interested. I have enough problems with Windows as is.

Fixed that


I imagine what's going to happen is eventually cPanel the Linux version will simply become Enkompass as well. So you'll have an all in one solution for Windows and Linux that supports multiple servers. They'll get away from the per server to per user license. So it'll be similar to Hsphere with it being all in one. It'll give an advantage to hosts who are using more than one server such as us. We could turn 5 web servers we currently have into 2 web + 1 mysql + 1 mail or whatever. That's probably a ways away though they talked about how cPanel 12 would offer that sort of thing.

[rgdot]

If I were to become a reseller I would be interested, but that's probably not happening soon.

[hdcommunications]

If you offer smartermail with Win hosting, I could be interested.

Think about it... Since it's compatible with blackberrys and iphones over the air sync, you could reach a bigger market.

This post has been edited by hdcommunications: 06 October 2009 - 01:16 PM

[andrei]

Introducing Windows on hosting plans could be a great ideea and a step forward for HawkHost, offering 2 type of hostings. Could this thing happen soon, Tony?
What are your thoughts regarding Windows vs. Linux hosting?

[jonee54]

so what is the difference between a linux based php server against a windows based php server? oh of course the linux based one would give you a hell less of headaches.

unless you would be giving out certain new things from the windows hosting like asp perhaps- i think offering java in your hosting would reach out to more new customers

[Tony]

Windows hosting would be targeting people wishing to use ASP.NET, SQL Server as well as the ability to use a mail system similar to exchange.


As far as java the problem with it is having the underlying software supporting it. It's no good if we're having to manually setup everything for users. We're all about automation.

[speedturtle]

I think Hawk Host should first consider Cloud Hosting as it is fast gaining in popularity due to its many advantages:
- automatically reacts and allocates more resources from its resource pool to the website as and when it is needed
- website is very fast as it can use the massive resources of the Cloud at anytime, hence no more slow loading pages or downtime
- choose either Linux or Windows hosting on the cloud
- run Linux and Windows scripts on the same website from the same folder
- access new and old technologies such as PHP4, PHP5, etc
- no need to move from shared hosting to vps to dedicated as our website grows.

Cloud Computing is such a beautiful and simple concept. How can we ignore it?

We cannot disregard Windows Hosting as Microsoft is a very big player in the IT industry. At the same time, Windows Hosting on traditional servers has several problems such as:
- not as stable as Unix
- slower than Unix servers
- resource intensive
- more reboots required, which means more downtime.

I don't see why Hawk Host should waste time and money on setting up Windows Hosting using traditional hosting methods knowing the kind of problems Windows Hosting has. I would think most of these problems would be solved with Cloud Hosting. It makes sense to me to first implement Cloud Hosting and then offer Windows Hosting as an option under it.

Hawk Host has established itself as a hosting company keen on the latest technology as seen from the recent server hardware upgrades. Besides using the latest hardware technology, they should also think about using the latest hosting technology...Cloud Computing.

[andrei]

Any new thoughts regarding Windows plan? Sorry if I missed something beside this topic, but I am planning to develop asp.net + sql server and I am interested to see if HH is going to give us this opportunity.

Thank you for your answer and for the best hosting company in the world

[Juanita]

For me, I never use Windows as hosting server.
I was look around and usually Linux hosting are cheaper than Windows hosting.
Also, people said Linux hosting more stable than Windows hosting.
So, I stick to Linux hosting.
CMIIW.