Survey Results from "Building a ModPerl ISP for you!"

[Joshua Chamas <jo...@chamas.com>]

Hey, 

Below are the results of the survey I sent out a couple 
weeks back.  Thanks again for all your responses.

--Joshua

> 1. How many dynamic web requests do you serve per month?
>  [8] up to 10M pages
>  [5] 10M - 100M pages
>  [ ] 100M - 1G pages
>  [ ] more than 1 gig pages
> 
> 2. How many servers do you have handling requests, disregarding
>    network infrastructure.
>  [7] 1 - 5
>  [ ] 6 - 10
>  [2] 11 - 20
>  [1] 20 - 50
>  [ ] 50+
> 
> 3. Do you out source ... ( if only willing to in next year, mark with [W] )
>  [6] data center facilities like Exodus ( bandwidth, security, 
>        fire suppression, cooling )
>  [1] networking equipment ( LAN routing, switches, firewalls, 
>        web cluster front ends like alteons, cache servers ) 
>  [4] server hardware 
>  [ ] server software management
>  [1] security ( firewalls, network monitoring, host monitoring )
>  [1] backups ( tape, network share, rotating off site storage )
>  [ ] file shares ( NFS, Samba space )
>  [1] high volume email
>  [1] high volume DNS
>  [1] network service monitoring
>  [ ] geographically distributed DNS
>  [1] streaming media, content distribution, like Akamai
>  [1] network service load testing
> 
> 4. What is your web production budget per month?
>  [6] up to $5,000
>  [1] $5,000 - $10,000
>  [ ] $10,000 - $20,000
>  [1] $20,000 - $50,000
>  [3] over $50,000
> 
> 5. Which web deployment issues are most important to your business?
>  [7] cost
>  [7] scalability
>  [5] fault tolerance, over 99.99% uptime
>  [2] time to market
>  [1] physical access to hardware & data
>  [3] network engineering expertise
>  [4] web engineering expertise
> 
> 6. Would you be willing to out source the above services to facilities in:
>  [5] Los Angeles, CA
>  [5] San Francisco, CA
>  [5] San Diego, CA
>  [7] New York, NY
>  [5] Austin, TX
>  [5] Seattle, WA
>  [4] London
>  [5] Amsterdam
>  [1] Paris
> Also, 1 for Pittsburg
> 7. What OS's do you run in web production?
>  [12] Linux
>  [2] Solaris
>  [1] WinNT / Win2000
>  [3] *BSD
>  [ ] Other
>  [3] Could you switch?
> 	
> 8. Are you currently a ...
>  [10] Engineer / Sysadmin / Developer
>  [4] Manager
>  [4] Consultant
> 
> 9. What databases are you using?
>  [9] MySQL
>  [3] Oracle
>  [2] Sybase
>  [4] PostgreSQL
>  [1] Informix
>  [ ] DB2
>  [3] Could you switch?
> 
> 10. What does your database require:
>  [10] Speed
>  [4] Transactions
>  [4] Clustering / Fault Tolerance
>  [5] Clustering / Scalability
>  [3] Database logic, i.e. triggers, procedures
>  [2] Database integrity, i.e. referential constraints
> 
> 11. What are your web development languages?  
>  [12] Perl
>  [2] Java
>  [2] C/C++
>  [ ] Python
>  [ ] Other
>