I think the issue could be the 99% data driven. Not that I know the design
or anything. Ben Forta at the UKCFUG meeting specifically highlighted an
issue with a databases. He knew of one site where the application.cfm would
take 13 minutes to run first time....after that, milliseconds. It was
literally cahing the whole catalogue for the site into structures to provide
massive performance gains.
> ----------
> From: Kevin Schmidt[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 22 September 2000 17:02
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: ASP or Coldfusion?
>
> 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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