Re: considering two options for changing hosting

2015-03-31 Thread Cameron Childress
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Mark Spence wrote: 1. Lately the Wordpress portion of the site has become slow and I can't figure out why. It's not the db and it is not the plug-ins. It's a simple site with not many posts or widgets and it should be faster. The CF portion of the site is

Re: considering two options for changing hosting

2015-03-31 Thread Dean Lawrence
Mark, I made the switch to Hostek (https://cp.hostek.com/aff.php?aff=931) a few years back and I have been very happy with the decision. I just went through a server upgrade over the weekend in which we ran into an issue with a couple of old sites that are still running on MS Access. Their

Re: considering two options for changing hosting

2015-03-31 Thread Russ Michaels
MSAccess does not work since windows server 2008 as the jet drivers do not exist for 64bit OS, so your host must be running 2003 still on 32bit. So the days of running MSAccess have already gone years ago, you are just running on a legacy windows 2003 system, which reaches EOL this July. If you

RE: considering two options for changing hosting

2015-03-31 Thread Stephens, Larry V
I echo everything said below except I am on shared hosting. I've had some issues with slow response and failure to connect and, at least twice, they volunteered to move me to a different host to solve the problem. I'm running multiple sites with them. There have been times when I'm pretty

Re: considering two options for changing hosting

2015-03-31 Thread Dean Lawrence
(ha). http://www.coldfusionmuse.com/index.cfm/2010/12/31/Access. on.64bit.ColdFusio n -Mark -Original Message- From: Russ Michaels [mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:52 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: considering two options for changing hosting

RE: considering two options for changing hosting

2015-03-31 Thread Mark A Kruger
Ow! That hurt. -Original Message- From: Russ Michaels [mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 3:37 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: considering two options for changing hosting Mark, there is a very good reason I do not tell people there is a workaround to get MSAccess

Re: considering two options for changing hosting

2015-03-31 Thread Russ Michaels
[mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:52 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: considering two options for changing hosting MSAccess does not work since windows server 2008 as the jet drivers do not exist for 64bit OS, so your host must be running 2003 still on 32bit. So the days

RE: considering two options for changing hosting

2015-03-31 Thread Mark A Kruger
PS. I agree his host is probably using 32bit. -Original Message- From: Russ Michaels [mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:52 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: considering two options for changing hosting MSAccess does not work since windows server 2008 as the jet

Re: considering two options for changing hosting

2015-03-27 Thread Michael Grant
I use Newtek and they are pretty good. However I've tried to run CF and Wordpress on the same Windows server with Newtek and Wordpress was super slow. They kept telling me it's a known issue and there's nothing they could do about it. I ended up splitting onto two different servers. It's shared

Re: considering two options for changing hosting

2015-03-27 Thread Patrick at A7
I love Hostek. I’m a reseller with dozens of sites there. Strong, 24/7 ColdFusion-Knowlegable support! Patrick (A7.net) On Mar 26, 2015, at 10:35 PM, Byron Mann byronos...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry I cannot comment on Hostek, but I would recommend working with your host and getting to the

Re: considering two options for changing hosting

2015-03-26 Thread Byron Mann
Sorry I cannot comment on Hostek, but I would recommend working with your host and getting to the root of the issue before putting in the work on moving things. I just know that can be a hassle and you could wind up in the same place as you are today. So some recommendations. - Get your

Re: considering two options for changing hosting

2015-03-26 Thread Russ Michaels
the common reasons PHP becomes slow is an overloaded server, if the disk IO is not fast then PHP suffers. This does not affect CF in the same way because cf templates get cached in memory by default. To determine whether one host is going to be any better than another, the question you need to