Re: Moving part of my hosting business - thoughts about my plan please ...

2014-06-04 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Pete Freitag wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Mike K wrote: Is there any benefit of one flavour of Linux over another? Yes, if you pick an obscure distribution intended for hardcore linux users (for example Gentoo linux) you will have a hard time as a

Re: Moving part of my hosting business - thoughts about my plan please ...

2014-06-04 Thread Jordan Michaels
You can customize the location of the WEB-INF directory for each context (site): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/railo/AEQGOlv4m0I This becomes particularly important when multiple contexts use a single code base (when clustering, some CMS's, etc). Just FYI. Warm Regards, Jordan

Re: Moving part of my hosting business - thoughts about my plan please ...

2014-06-03 Thread Pete Freitag
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Mike K afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any other 'gotchas' moving from windows to linux? I did a presentation on Linux for CF users at cf.Objective() this year, my slides are here: http://slides.com/petefreitag/cf-on-linux#/ Is there any benefit of one

Re: Moving part of my hosting business - thoughts about my plan please ...

2014-06-03 Thread Gerald Guido
I like RHEL/CentOS because they are pretty stable and they don't do bleeding edge, main bug/security fixes, you have to upgrade to the next major release to upgrade major versions of many packages. Yeah what Pete said, I have been on Centos and RedHat for years. It is very stable but the

RE: Moving part of my hosting business - thoughts about my plan please ...

2014-06-03 Thread Mark A Kruger
We use CentOS extensively here at CFWT and have many customers using it as well. Very solid. -Original Message- From: Gerald Guido [mailto:gerald.gu...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 10:29 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Moving part of my hosting business - thoughts about my plan

Re: Moving part of my hosting business - thoughts about my plan please ...

2014-05-29 Thread Jaime Metcher
Coming in a couple of months late here, but I've just been through a move from Windows/Adobe CF/MS SQL Server to Linux/Railo/MySQL and found a couple of things not previously mentioned. Windows - Linux: already covered above, but I'll just add that anything that turns into a file name (like CFC

Re: Moving part of my hosting business - thoughts about my plan please ...

2014-05-29 Thread Russ Michaels
Thanks for the details. Have you considered dping a blog post detailing the process Russ Michaels www.michaels.me.uk cfmldeveloper.com cflive.net cfsearch.com On 29 May 2014 07:13, Jaime Metcher jmetc...@gmail.com wrote: Coming in a couple of months late here, but I've just been through a

Moving part of my hosting business - thoughts about my plan please ...

2014-03-28 Thread Mike K
Yes yes yes, I know its been done and done again here.I'd like to know the opinion of some of you who've been down this road a few times - its quite a while since I've moved hosts.. here's my issue: I need to move to a new hosting company from the one I have my small business sites on.

Re: Moving part of my hosting business - thoughts about my plan please ...

2014-03-28 Thread Cameron Childress
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Mike K wrote: I am thinking of a virtual server in the cloud, moving to Linux and Railo from Windows2003 Server and ColdFusion. We are working on a similar move with a client right now and here's what advise I can give based on the decisions we made. Only

Re: Moving part of my hosting business - thoughts about my plan please ...

2014-03-28 Thread Jon Clausen
Mike, Based on what you’ve outlined below, and what you’re already aware of, I would say the biggest challenge for your migration is going to be in migrating the databases from SQLServer. That one can tricky but there are a number of good tools out there to help you do that. In answer to

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2014-03-28 Thread Russ Michaels
I will also mention, that running on Windows doe snot need to incur any license costs Most VPS hosts will give you Windows Server Web Edition for free, and some can give ANY edition for FREE, because it doesn't cost them anything on your SPLA licensing model. You can also run Railo and CF

Re: Moving part of my hosting business - thoughts about my plan please ...

2014-03-28 Thread Money Pit
Having been there/done that myself, I would follow Cameron's described route. You don't want to be debugging so many different issues at once on an OS you aren't intimately familiar with (and maybe not familiar at all). You mentioned you are on Win2003. Have you by chance missed out on running

Re: Moving part of my hosting business - thoughts about my plan please ...

2014-03-28 Thread Mike K
Thank you everybody, I'm glad I asked.I have changed my plan now. Cameron and others made a good point. I was trying to do too many thing at once. My plan now is to get a new hosting environment as similar as possible to my current one, so its gives me the most chance that I'll be