No problem! I'm glad to be doing my part giving back to the CF community. >From personal experience, I can't comment on if Linux/Apache is faster or >better than Windows/IIS for CF. I am also on the House of Fusion CF-Linux >list and remember a discussion not too long ago on there about the benefits to >finding a host that runs some flavor of *nix system and CF8 because it's "more >stable" than Windows [1]. They also mention a few shared-hosting and Virtual >Private Hosting companies to look at. However, since MS SQL won't run on >*nux, if you plan on using databases for dynamic sites you'd be stuck with >either MySQL or Postgre. This would, however, make duplicating a same-as-host >invironment much easier since you can get Apache/MySQL installs for all your >major OSes and it's free. Where I work, we host all our stuff internally at >our own server farm and don't allow anyone access to it, so I haven't had the >need to look into hosting elsewhere.
I think that when you say, "specializes in producing SEO sites" you mean that they follow all the "clean code" standards and validate and use friendly urls? Maybe there's more to it, but I've never fully understood just how everything goes into a site's search engine findability. We have an in-house SEO specialist who decides what wants done on sites and lets one of us programmers know so we can implement it. Typically that means making friendly urls by doing database lookups on a human-friendly word instead of a machine-friendly id number. I'm not aware of any good SEO with CF sites, but there may be some. From my programmer's standpoint, SEO implementation has a programing implementation that is not language-specific, but more conceptual. I'm backing off on my freelance lately as hours are getting more intense at the office and I still need time for the finer things in life like eating and biking. :) But when I was looking I tended to find smaller, full-site designs that gave me the option to use whatever language I thought would be easiest for me, whether it is PHP, Coldfusion, or simple XHTML. Mainly those were small niche shops where any SEO beyond following coding standards and using friendly-urls would have to be done by someone else. And as a side note,if you install the Developer Edition of CF, you will be limited to the number of client connections to it -- meaning, at least for CF7, you were only allowed to see CF-generated pages from localhost and two other IPs. Having a few different computers at my house and needing to check designs in IE6, IE7, Firefox, and Safari sometimes meant using 3 computers and then a restart of the CF server to allow another connection. I remember hearing CF8 changed its restrictions, but I don't know what they were changed too. If you're still reading, well done. :) Hope I didn't get too long-winded. Jeff Meagher http://www.fuelinteractive.com http://www.theCircumlocution.com [1] http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-linux/thread.cfm/threadid:1084 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Newbie/message.cfm/messageid:3551 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Newbie/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.15
