How much does it cost to host a site on force.com?
I have stumbled across 2 articles about cloud computing today. First, I was reading an interesting discussion about an updated definition of cloud and then I found myself reading a first take on force.com. I was then considering signing up at developer.force.com. But, before I invested any time in learning Apex Code etc I wanted to know how much it costs to host a site in the cloud.
So, here is a quick link to their pricing page:
http://www.salesforce.com/platform/platform-edition/
Maybe I should investigate some more, but, at the time in writing, it says the cost for Force.com Enterprise is $50 per user per month.
I don’t really understand the benefit for a client of attaching the ‘price’ to the ‘number of users’. Surely the point of using web based applications is to be able to the increase the number of users at a disproportionate rate to the increase in cost of the system.
Oh well. I’m sure there is something I’m not getting. Feel free to add your answer below.
May 2nd, 2010 at 2:18 am
If you are just looking to host a website, look at Force Free Edition. You only need a full enterprise edition license if you are looking for salesforce’s sales, service, and marketing apps. Force Free will give you 100 free platform seats on which you can build any custom app and set up multiple sites.