Dwayne Cole, MS in MIS, MBA
Florida A&M University
Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
850-591-0212
"It can truly be said that nothing happens until there is vision. But it is equally true that a vision with no underlying sense of purpose, no calling, is just a good idea - all "sound and fury, signifying nothing." The Fifth Discipline - Peter Senge
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From: "Burns, John D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:02:49 -0400
>1. I would say a lot of that depends on the specs of the server itself.
>HD, RAM, etc.
>2. I would think that obviously, keeping anything you wanted to back up
>in one place would make that easier. Make a partition just for the web
>root and the custom tags directory. Then just back up that entire
>partition and only back up the system partition when you make changes to
>configurations, etc.
>3. Make the CF Server run as an user account instead of system and lock
>down permissions as to what that account can do. Disable any
>potentially harmful tags that you're not using. A lot of this depends
>on if the sites are controlled by someone else (you're the hosting
>provider) or if you're a one-stop-shop for web development/hosting.
>Also, make sure you do proper stuff in your code like <cfqueryparam> and
>checking file uploads to make sure they're not .exe or .cfm or anything
>that could do stuff on your machine.
>4. I'd say doing the separate partition will make it easy. The rest
>depends on the model you choose to follow for your app.
>5. If everything is set up as a different site in IIS, you'll get
>separate logs and can do a lot of monitoring that way. As far as CF
>monitoring of the individual app/site, I'm not sure.
>
>I'm no expert, and may have just stated the obvious, but no one else had
>posted, so I figured I'd give what I could. I'm sure there's much more.
>
>John Burns
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dwayne Cole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 11:36 AM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: Configuring New CFMX Box
>
>I have and Windows 2000 server that I'm going to configure to host about
>200 - 300 CFMX / SQL Server and Access websites.
>
>Each site will have its own set of templates (View and Controller
>templates) but they will all share a set of templates (Model templates).
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>I have never had to worry about the server / administrative end of CFMX
>and I'm looking for some suggestions on how should I configure the
>server:
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>1). for optimal performance,
>2). to ensure backup,
>3). to secure the application,
>4). to facilitate code maintenance and
>5). to monitor the performance of the individual sites.
>
>I looking for suggestion as it relates to partitioning the drive,
>patching OS, removing example files, what should go in wwwroot and maybe
>what should not, what supporting software should I look into.
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>Dwayne Cole, MS in MIS, MBA
>Florida A&M University
>Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
>850-591-0212
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