Hey Tormod, I'm really interested in reading the thread you quote below, but I'm having trouble finding it via word search, and/or by searching under your forums nickname.
Can you point me to this thread, or maybe give me some additional info about which forum/category the thread might appear in? Thanks much! -Vern > -----Original Message----- > From: Tormod Guldvog [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 1:30 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CFMX connectivity problems (not DB-related) > > > > > customers not to choose the CFMX platform as it is known > to be unstable > > > > unstable? > > Here's what they say (quote from their reply to my post in > their forums): > > "If you are worried about uptime, you should not be on a Cold > Fusion MX server. We keep > emailing this to our customers, putting it in newsletters > etc. but people are not > understanding that this is a complete rewrite of the > Macromedia Cold Fusion product, and > there are many pieces that don't work properly at this time. > It is somewhat compatible, > and many features do work, but there are load issues and > connectivity issues to ODBC. The > biggest problem is their ODBC service which they had to > create in order to connect from > JRUN/JDBC to Windows native ODBC. The ODBC services stall > just as they did in Cold Fusion > 4.5 before service packs. > > Do not jump into CFMX with production sites thinking > everything will run smoothly and > that you will get the uptime you would on a mature product > like Cold Fusion 5.0. Jumping > into CFMX is like getting in a prototype airplane... you have > no idea what could happen. > > This is a warning to all our customers because we DO NOT want > to see our customers > struggling to convert pieces of their applications at the > last second or going crazy > because CFMX isn't running like Cold Fusion 5.0. We have done > our best to make CFMX > stable, we have dropped the number of sites per server to > around 75 sites per server just > to help until they come out with service packs. > > Someone on the forum once said, they found it "interesting" > when I talked about CF, > implying that my comments are biased in some way, I want to > assure all of our CF > customers that is not the case. My comments are based on our > knowledge and experience > from monitoring the servers 24x7 and many hours and late > nights with Macromedia support, > and Microsoft support and the list goes on. We support many > technologies and work very > hard to do so above and beyond expectations and hope we > enable our customers use them to > their fullest potential." > > Now isn't that a mouthful. > > > > > > and have serious connectivity problems (page not found, > browser hangups > > > etc). > > > > never heard this. > > > references to them from others but as for myself I'm having severe > > > problems with two CFMX plans I've bought recently. > > > > what problems? > > Page not found errors, DNS problems (browesrs can't find the > pages even though both PINGs > and tracerts work all right), unresponsive site, Internal > server errors, the whole > shebang. > > The site in question, which is still a testing site, is at: http://www.hypography.net/ Tormod -- Tormod Guldvog [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If the future is here today, what can possibly happen tomorrow?" ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
