It all depends on what you are paying for. If you are getting Cold Fusion hosting and
a SQL server database on a shared server for $10/mo then you take what you can get.
If your site is "mission critical" then this is completely unacceptable, but you may
have to pay more for more reliability.
You will have to decide how much your budget will allow. Because of the nature of Cold
Fusion and Database servers for reliability you really can't be on a shared server.
You've been reading all these messages about how to use CFLOCK so you never 'crash'
the server? What if you are sharing a server with someone who never heard of CFLOCK?
A dedicated server will put you in control of your own server and take a lot of the
unpredictability out of it, but it will cost more.
If your site is *really* mission-critical for a client who has a real budget then you
can do alot more for reliability like having a web farm (multiple Cold Fusion/Web
servers with failover between them), a database cluster, etc. Make sure your hosting
provider has redundant paths from your server out to the Internet including redundant
routers, switches, etc. Actually go on a tour of the facility if possible. You'd be
surprised how many ISPs promise alot but in person your server is sitting on someone's
desk with a cat sleeping on top of it :-)
At 08:48 AM 9/3/00 -0400, Hubert Earl wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Is it to be expected that a server may be down for 24 hours? The server I
>use has been down since yesterday, and I'm trying to decide whether to
>should shift to a different server. It is true that this is the first time
>it has been down so long, but as I need to use it to do business on the Net,
>it is rather unsettling. However, I don't want to move if it is a situation
>that may normally happen on most servers from time to time.
>
>Sincerely,
>---
>Hubert Earl
>
>ICQ#: 16199853
>
>See pictures of items in my Jamaican Art, Craft & More Online Sale:
>http://cfwarrior.homeip.net/hubert/onlinesales/ebay_links_page.htm
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
>To Unsubscribe visit
>http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a
>message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Peter Theobald, Chief Technology Officer
LiquidStreaming http://www.liquidstreaming.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone 1.212.545.1232 Fax 1.212.679.8032
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
To Unsubscribe visit
http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a
message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
