I'm planning out what could be a fairly large ebusiness project. It's probaby going to involve about 300k new database records per month. And probably about 2mil database queries a month.
My expertise focuses mainly on SQL 2k to 2k8 with CF4 to CF8. I'm much more a cf'er than a dba, but I'm pretty good for a non-dba dba if you know what I mean. The perspective client is a very large, very demanding client. If the app gets built and they aren't happy they'll just drop you and move to another with virtually no hesitation. So there's a real need to do it right and keep it right. As such, in this stage of the game there's nothing that's really off the table. That being said I need to think of *how* to build this app. Do I stick to the regular CF/MSSQL combo that I know so well or do I take this opportunity to move to something else? Is CF up to the task even? Should I think about the new golden boy of the web community... Ruby? If so do I use mySQL? And what about the mysterious cloud? I'd really like horizontal scalability but have never worked with the cloud, only read a few articles about it. I know hosting.com rolled out a cf9/cloud solution but that's the limit of my knowledge. What do you peeps think? I know Rob knows his shizz. Wanna chime in here? Peace doggies. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:312740 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
