Those of you who remember me from the hay-days here, most of the time back then I was unemployed. Eventually I got a position, then got married. My wife was working with me at the same company. Recently corporate in-fighting in our company caused a consolidation of the two offices, moving the Michigan branch (ours) to Florida. Denni and I (and all the others except one) refused the transfer and were terminated.

This leaves us in a position where we need employment BUT are in a position to independently do what we were doing. We are getting backers and support in that regard.

One thing I feel we'll need is a good web page and a forum. I looked over the Infopop site (this board) and was a little confused.
What is a "dedicated" UBB service versus a "shared" one? (the cost differential is quite large).

Is it advisable to use the same service for web hosting as the UBB ?

We have to get this geared up quickly as our dumb-ass ex-company eliminated customer tech and clinical support for 1500 practitioners. The customers will pay for this service and somebody will fill the vacuum soon ...

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Shared

This gets you a UBB hosted on some machine that also hosts UBBs for other clients of theirs. This allows them to run multiple smaller UBBs for clients thus reducing the costs to the client since they can pack many UBBs into one machine. You get less performance, less bandwidth and storage than with the "Dedicated" plan but the price is considerably less. Note: You can customize the plan to increase bandwidth and storage (at a cost). Plan starts @ 21$ / month.

Dedicated

This gets you the use of one machine (single and dual processor machines) that host your UBB exclusively. You gets lots of storage and monthly bandwidth. Costs considerably more than the "Shared" plan. Plans start @ 499$ / month.

In both cases (shared and dedicated), Infopop takes care of the hardware, the hosting and the UBB installation. You get no physical access to the machines hosting the UBB. Both incurr additional charges for overage, restores, plan, domain names, etc...

If you have your own machine you wish to host on, by all means you can purchase a license for one or more of their message board products and host off your Dial-Up/DSL/T1/T3/OC192/etc connection. But this means you have to install the UBB software and take care of the server and connection. Unless you are willing to understand and support UBB and the technologies it relies on, pay them to do it. Or pay a third party to do it for you (netmegs maybe?).

That's my understanding of their offerings based on looking at their web page.

[ 11-12-2002: Message edited by: Jarlaxle ]

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You certainly are better at looking, or look harder than I do ...

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