Russ, That's the ticket, I think I am going that route. Then I can sync everything daily and just swap over when / if disaster strikes. Excellent idea, one of those 'why didn't I think of that' ones!!
Chris Peterson -----Original Message----- From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 5:22 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Disaster recovery license for Coldfusion Sometimes physical servers do have exceptions on licensing. I believe MS allows you to use the same license for a failover box for sql (at least that's what I remember reading somewhere). I don't see why you can't just install the developer version of CF, and have that waiting for a failover, and then just plug in the license when you actually do need to fail over to it. Russ > -----Original Message----- > From: Teddy Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:36 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Disaster recovery license for Coldfusion > > I have not heard of this premise before. The whole purpose of a > failover is to be online and waiting for a failure from a primary > server. Having the server turned off would defeat the speed of a > failover box. Unless you are dealing with Virtual servers failovers > where licensing can get grey, physical servers tend not to have > exceptions on server licenses. > > Teddy > > On 8/31/06, Alan Rother <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'd like to preface this response by saying, "I don't really know, > > I'm just guessing." > > > > With that in mind, I would say no, you can't do that. If you have > > the thing turned on and running, with all of the software installed > > waiting for a failover, I think you would need a seperate license. > > Now if you had a spare box, turned off and with no software > > installed and a failure occurred > and > > THEN you installed the license from the now dead box, that would be ok. > > > > Think of it this way, you are using that second box, maybe not > > actively, but you are using it. Do you think Microsoft would accept > > the same argument with regards to any of it's products? > > > > The best way I can come up with determining if you should buy > > another license for anything is by placing value on it. If by having > > the > software > > on > > a server and up and running you are in effect getting value out of it. > The > > value it is giving you is piece of mind and saved time in the event > > of a failure. > > > > Just my 2 cents. When in doubt, read the EULA > > > > -- > > Alan Rother > > Macromedia Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:251733 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
