Rick, Sounds like you are considering dedicated specialized instances, and I am a big fan of this. There is one customer I work with who has several sites in a single instances, like you do, but they have also created specific instances for specific needs. They have one that just does mailing, it receives requests from other instances, and process them. They have another which executes report requests on scheduled intervals. And another that builds Verity indexes when needed. These specialized instances require fewer threads, fewer data sources, no RDS and debugging (which you'd never want enabled on production servers anyway), and so on. That works very well. Of course, you may also want separate instances for specific apps, but that is a separate discussion.
--- Ben -----Original Message----- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:26 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Moving from CF Server Standalone to Multi Server ... So after attending about 10 minutes of Dave Watt's coldfusion server performance session on Saturday at CFUnited (sorry Dave, my wife showed up 15 minutes into the preso!), I've decided that running a multi-server setup would be a Good Thing. Currently, we have about 8 web sites running on a single instance of Coldfusion. The other day I was doing a bulk mailing to 15,000 alumni and fusion reactor started killing off new threads due to "high server load" - it was actually a memory thing I think. Anyway, the idea of having my bulk mailings and other types of things that can put unusual load on CF in their own instance so they don't affect normal operation of the web site seemed like a good idea to me. CATCHES? Are there any gotchyas when going from running coldfusion in standalone server mode to multi-server operation? We're talking about a single physical box here, no clustering or anything like that... Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:245407 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
