Hi
I wonder if anyone can assist? I run a charitable organisation, so we genuinely have little money as opposed to just being tight-fisted! We currently run a dedicated server from a well-known hosting provider, and we're not in a hurry to change that.
However we need to deploy a Java-based workflow product. This will not be public-facing - just a handful of (widely-scattered) users. Our bandwidth requirements are therefore pretty small (I estimate, at worst, 6GB per month), although we'd need a decently fast connection, but it is the tech spec which is the problem.
We don't need a particularly fast CPU (our current dedicated dual-core P4 2GHz would be more than adequate), but we do need plenty of RAM. After the whole Apache Geronimo stack (including Sun JDK 1.5 - NOT 1.6) is loaded we need at least 512MB of RAM left as JVM heap, i.e. free space. So we're realistically looking at 2-3GB of RAM on the server / instance.
The "fashion" from what I can see seems to be to put new, fast boxes out with surprisingly little RAM and bucket loads of bandwidth.
So, can anyone help? We'd be happy with a VPS if it could guarantee the RAM requirements; failing that, we'd have to look at another dedicated server. We probably need only 1 IP address, but would need an SSL cert as well - preferably included in the price. A VPS would be ideal only because this system will initially be a little bit "prototype" and therefore we may not decide to continue with it after a month or two - we'd therefore prefer to have something with little / no set-up costs and no long tie-in.
I know that _everybody_ comes here asking for everything for nothing. However I can but ask! If all else fails, I'll host it in-house on our SDSL connection, but that wouldn't be ideal
