Over the past few months, we’ve received several requests to use our hosting facility…..  various groups want to supplement their server farms with our abundant capacity.

We’re thinking of opening up our global data collection hosting facility to 3^rd parties, hosted by IP-SOFT in a virtual environment. 

Whereby, there is a 24/7 DIY secure web interface (not based on Dimensions.NET).  You take the already written scripts from mrStudio, upload and compile on our servers, create sample tables and other necessary configurations, and then watch the results in real-time and track the performance from our tracking routers that sit in-front of mrinterview…….exporting data into whatever desired format as often as you like in our mrtables-like reporting tools for 1 month.

Your data would be isolated from everyone else’s data in our secure network (i.e. no one can get to your data except you and our managed hosting provider, IP-SOFT).

Obviously there are a lot more details, but you get the overall idea.  Reliable 24/7 hosting of servers and mrInterview by IP-SOFT, leveraging all the enterprise apps that GfK has written to better scale mrInterview.

What is a fair price to charge for such a hosting service?   Say $500 a project, flat-fee?

I’m looking or some feedback.

Many thanks,

-David Zotter à GFK