I guess I'll throw my experience into the mix as well.
We developed a ColdFusion a site that does well over 500,000 hits a day
running on a single web server and a single sql7 box. It is very, very data
intensive, and runs like a charm. As traffic picked up, we did run into
many issues, but were always able to overcome them by utilizing several
caching techniques.
Hope this helps!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey V. Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 10:46 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> 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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