Fwd: tomcat and ISPs

[James Duncan Davidson <du...@x180.net>]

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> From: John Nicholas <j-...@home.com>
> Date: Fri Apr 27, 2001  06:26:04 AM US/Pacific
> To: <du...@x180.net>
> Subject: tomcat and ISPs
>
> Hi Duncan,
> I'm writing you just because you were the first name on the "who we are"
> page on jakarta.apache.org site :) You're probably not the guy to 
> implement
> this but I'm hoping you know who could.
>
> I'm a professional web developer and have been working with Java for a 
> while
> on my own projects and am really enjoying it. Right now I'm doing a lot 
> of
> freelance for small companies and agencies and have noticed that it 
> isn't
> very easy to use servlets in place of PHP or Perl simply because of
> availability at the hosting service level.
>
> I think one of the main reasons PHP is so popular is that almost all 
> hosting
> services have it. At my level of development (as in customer size), when
> someone asks me about a project I have to ask what technology their 
> hosting
> company supports and 90% of the time it's PHP and MySQL. They usually
> already have a setup they're comfortable with and are unlikely to move 
> to a
> java friendly host for one project.
>
> I think a how-to page for ISPs on how to implement Tomcat in an ISP
> enviroment would go a long way towards encouraging these guys to add 
> JSP and
> Servlet support to their product mix. They are almost always Apache 
> shops so
> I think that Tomcat would be the most natural method for them to use.
>
> Thanks,
> John Nicholas