This is an old argument, I know, but just looking at installation costs, CF is competing with free. And most hosting sites put you into their more expensive packages if you want CF capability.
For independent sites or freelance developers, it's pretty hard to justify. CF as a language is perfectly geared towards the personal or small site that wants easy middleware capability. Small as in no budget. These are still the majority of web sites out there. And for freelance work, it's not easy either. I generally avoid freelance, but I've got a potential job coming up. The customer has already signed up with a hosting service and has a "coming soon" page up there. Of course, the host doesn't support CF and there's no way now that I'm going to talk the customer into switching hosts, especially considering that most CF hosting is more expensive than ASP/PHP. I agree with Jochem's observation of Sandboxing vs Pro. Perhaps more hosts would support CF if they could run the Pro version (at the Pro price) and get sandboxing capability. That might help push the market for CF. -Kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Davis [mailto:jim@;depressedpress.com] > Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 12:15 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: My last CF site? > > > > I don't see CF dying for lack of interest by MM. I do see > > them pricing it out of the ballpark of reasonable options for > > most people though, which has much the same effect. > > I don't know... MX seems downright cheap to me. Not personally of > course, but most small-midranged sites (at least any site that would > have to buy the server) would be in the range of several thousand to > several 10s of thousands of dollars. > > For smaller sites the key is finding a good CF host (and more of them > are appearing all the time). > > It also depends, unfortunately, on regional rates. In my case (Boston) > $100/hour is pretty average, so CFMX Pro is equivalent to less than a > day's work. And since it saves (generally) more than it makes sense. > > If you're working at $25/hour however then it's nearly a week of work... > A much harder sell. > > Again, for a really small site however you're not looking the cost of > the server, you're looking at the hosting costs. For developer's in > this scenario Macromedia (and Allaire before them) have generally been > great about providing free/low cost developer tools. > > > Flash Generator/Comm Server is even worse. > > Now that I can agree one... Although much of the Comm server > functionality (if not all) is built into CFMX so that, at least, is one > thing you don't have to buy. > > Jim Davis > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
