Maybe look into paying for support and have a MM engineer troubleshoot why the server's hanging. Will definitely cost you some bucks but the alternative will also cost you...
Secondly, you can cluster two instances on the same server and achieve failover...although that may not be a great solution when the CPU hits 100%. Cheers, Stace -----Original Message----- From: Dustin M Snell [Network Automation] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 3:01 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: 1 ColdFusion Failover costs 8-10x more than a standalone server! Hi, We are having major reliability problems with ColdFusion 7. These problems have been discussed here before with no real solutions. For example: JRUN will go completely haywire and take all the CPU and Virtual Memory on the system about once every 2 days, sometimes multiple times a day. We haven't been able to figure out why. For this and other reasons (such as the occasional upgrade), we have decided that a 2 server cluster would be a good idea so at least we could get some redundancy. We don't need load balancing really, just failover but it looks like you usually get both no matter what you do. Unfortunately, after calling Macromedia I have found that the only way to do this is to buy 2 licenses of ColdFusion Enterprise. So basically this will entail approximately a $10k+ investment in just Coldfusion licenses (not to mention hardware etc), which works out to about 8 times our original investment for the existing license, just to get some redundancy! So the formula is: 1 server solution = $695-$1200 (depending on upgrade or new) 1 redundant server solution (2 servers with same content) = $10,000+ Does this make sense to everyone here? For the love of God can someone tell me please: is there another way to get some redundancy? -Dustin Snell Network Automation, Inc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:216854 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
