>HMS makes *NO* exceptions to the 50 second rule, even for rarely used >administrative templates. This basically forces you off their shared server if >you ever need any template to run more than 50 seconds. I had to spring for a >$1,600 VPS to keep my site alive.
Sounds like it's not worth my trying to fight it then. I just wish they had this information clearly indicated somewhere on their site, because I would have known not to move my site to them otherwise. Buying a VPS is not an option for me financially, nor would I consider it when there are plenty of other hosts that don't do this. I'll have to debate whether completely recoding my download function is less work than moving the site to another less restrictive host. >While this has been a giant pain in the neck >for me I do respect HMS` fanatical commitment to defending the performance of >their shared servers. Their shared servers had persistent performance issues >before they imposed the 50 second rule. This sounds a lot like throwing the baby out with the bathwater to me. Surely there are more reasonable approaches they could take that would not break sites that aren't causing problems. I also worry about my customers on their servers being able to do major software upgrades in the future. These often include a fair amount of code and data migration that can take awhile to run. Normally a simple cfsetting tag will ensure they won't timeout halfway through the upgrade, but HMS users will have to find other ways to upgrade their sites if they have a lot of data to convert and hit this 50 second mark. --- Mary Jo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:265350 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
