I have to disagree there are alot of sites that are very large and handle
more than 100K plus hits a week running Cold Fusion. I think, as stated in
another reply earlier, it depends on who the developer is. Junk code won't
scale while good code will. Take that however you want.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoffrey V. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 9:45 AM
Subject: RE: ASP or Coldfusion?
>
> Hi,
> I'll offer my opinion, as I'm facing the same thing. I have a site that
is
> going to be massive. Cold Fusion simply could not hold up to the load,
and
> crashed repeatedly. The site is about 99% data driven, so there is a lot
of
> data access going on. I am now developing this site in ASP, and it seems
> far more stable. We are generally getting 100k+ hits a week on this site.
>
> After seeing many large projects fail with cold fusion, I'd recommend
trying
> other options before going the CF route on a large project. Note, I am a
> die hard CF developer, I feel that CF is good for smaller sites, less
hits,
> and allows for a faster development time than ASP... but it just doesn't
> hold up on larger projects.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dean Alexandrou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 10:01 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: ASP or Coldfusion?
> >
> >
> > I am not sure what tool to use to develop quite a major site. I have
heard
> > that while coldfusion is good for small sites, ASP is more
> > robust, and would
> > cope better with a large site that has to deal with a few thousand hits
a
> > week.
> >
> >
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