You may find general information relating to hosting options here. For technical FAQs this is a good place to start. For a overview of the differences between J2EE accounts click here. Alternatively, if you have any other questions we've neglected to cover, please get in touch! We alert you, the cost for each additional 1GB of bandwidth is priced at £1.99. The only real variable which delays matters is DNS (Domain Name Service), we can setup a subdomain of nameonthe.net to use during transitional periods. Typically accounts are set up within 4 working hours. Yes, you can either change the authoritative nameservers for your domain so we manage the DNS for you. Alternatively if you can manage the existing DNS records, simply point the www record to the IP address of the server we assign to you. This is a typical problem. However, we set up a temporary subdomain of nameonthe.net, i.e. yoursite.nameonthe.net which you can use to point your ftp/web client to upload and test your web application(s). Once you're satisfied the DNS can be 'flipped' making for a seamless migration. Yes, simply place them in an area where your web application's classloader can find them, typically within the WEB-INF/lib directory. Please see the servlet hosting comparison for further detail. We don't limit the heap as this will very often produce OutOfMemory exceptions for larger apps. Some ISPs do this to maximise the number of private JVMs on a server or charge extra for a larger heap, our solution is simply to install more memory. Absolutely, you can upgrade at any time with zero downtime! Yes, you can manage your email accounts using our control panel. No, we can provide a subdomain of nameonthe.net. Alternatively, sign up for a year and get a free domain name! No, using a combination of operating system features and constant monitoring using SNMP traps no one user can monopolise system resources. Absolutely not! Some ISP restart Tomcat as frequently as 15 minutes to 'assist' users who want their webapps redeployed. With the Tomcat manager app, auto deployment and hot reloading, this is totally unnecessary. You'll need to change the DNS details, you can either change the authoritative nameservers to ours (ns1.nameonthe.net & ns2.nameonthe.net) or modify your existing DNS to point your domain to the IP address we assign to you. Yes, we charge £9.99 for *.uk's and £19.99 for .com/.net/.org domains for 2 years. Yes Yes We've moved away from Redhat to Debian Linux as our platform of choice. Redhat's new Fedora project remains popular with ISPs although it is totally unsupported: 'Bleeding edge Linux technology for developers and technology enthusiasts using Linux in non-critical computing environments.' (source - http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/). We use FreeBSD machines for internal development use.