OT: Java web hosting

[Meng Cheah]

Christopher Browne wrote:
> On 1/8/06, Meng Cheah <meng-D1t3LT1mScs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
>>Excuse my ignorance, I've tried "googling".
>>
>>What is the difference between Java web hosting and plain web hosting
>>with say, PHP? I understand it involves JVM.
>>
>>Why is it that less companies offer it and it may cost more?
>>Is more bandwidth involved and a different set of skills or complexity?
> 
> 
> It's not so much the bandwidth as it is that you'll quite likely be
> dominating usage of memory on the server.
> 
> Java tends to be a RAM-hog, particularly as you progress to using J2EE
> and other "heavyweight frameworky" sorts of things.
> 
> 
>>What is to stop someone running his or her own server and hosting
>>Java-based apps?
> 
> 
> Nothing.
> 
> The difference is essentially that with "plain old web hosting" where
> you're serving static files and *possibly* running a bit of
> Perl/Python/PHP is something where 15 clients could, in principle,
> share the same server.
> 
> In contrast, it isn't tough to get to the point where traffic dictates
> having multiple Java application servers...

Thanks for the explanation.

Meng
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