Buy two gigabit network cards, and attach the sql server directly to the cf machine.  Problem solved.

But since this is a dev machine, a presumably doesn't get too much traffic, I don't think you need to worry about it at all.

----- Original Message -----
From: brobborb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, March 1, 2004 10:14 am
Subject: Separate DB from Server or not

> hey guys, this is my Dev machine configuration
>
> 2.8ghz P4
> 1 gig of RAM
> and SERIAL ATA 100 hard drives
> Windows Server 2000
>
> For now, we have SQL Server running on a separate computer.  I was
> wondering whether we should run them on the same server, or on a
> separate server.  Security is not an issue.  Performance is.  
> There is alot of info traveling between CF and the database and we
> don't want to overload the network (I dont even know if it will
> even get to that), and maybe all that data going back and forth
> might cause a slight perfomance hit to the app.
>
> But also, the server might slow down if both DB and coldfusion are
> running!  How do you have your dev set up?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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