Michael, The level of traffic and usage you describe should be able to be handled easily by a standard server (just ignore Adobe's marketing speak). The question on upgrading is really about why you are experiencing difficulty and what you expect to get out of enterprise. If you have a capacity issue where you need the features of ent like cfthread, gateways and the tuning options (along with server monitor), or if you want to leverage 64 bit processing, or if you want to run multi-server to isolate an application, or if you want to run on top of another app platform as an ear file etc etc.... Then enterprise is a good choice.
If, however, your stability problems are related to buggy code, poor DB resource or poor implementation - then enterprise is not going help. You will have to address it sooner or later. Here's my 5 point checklist 1) Are you seeing deadlocks on the DB? 2) Are accessing CFC return vars in one persistent scope from another (returning the results of a CFC method call from application to session for example) 3) Are you maximizing your JVM memory and using appropriate GC switches? 4) Are you experiencing the "class loader" issue (using a dynamic class loader with Java version 1.6) 5) Do you have batch processes or other "heavy lifting" processes on the server? This would be a start. All of these items are solvable on Standard or ent - and if you are experiencing any of these issues merely upgrading to Ent will not solve the issue. -mark Mark A. Kruger, CFG, MCSE (402) 408-3733 ext 105 www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -----Original Message----- From: Michael Patti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:32 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: When is is time to upgrade to Enterprise Edition? I've seen various postings around this subject, but wanted to get some advice on my particular situation. I have a dedicated Win2K3 box with 4 GB ram and a dual-core xeon running IIS 6 and CFMX7 Standard Edition. The box is located at a tier-one data center. I have 18 web sites ranging from a few pages up to several thousand pages. In total, my sites generate around 50,000 hits per day; and the largest of my sites sees around 75K users per month. I realize that doesn't seem like a lot of traffic; but all of these sites are for non-profit associations with small membership levels (avg. 600 members/association). What these sites *do* have are a lot of Coldfusion applications. All the members areas are run on a commercially built CF application (12 instances of this), and we have upwards of 50 other custom-built applications. Several of these applications make use of persistent CFCs (scoped at the application level), so at any given time, at least 350 MB of the server's RAM is being used by JRUN. I have CF datasources set up for 47 separate MS SQL 2000 databases, all of which run on a separate, dedicated server at a different location from my webserver. Lately, I've been noticing a lot of instability on the server, with request timeouts, what appear to be memory leaks, and general end-user unhappiness. I've been trying my darndest to tune my applications and the CF server using best practices found on various sources (including this site, Coldfusion Muse, Robi Sen's blog, etc.), but lately I've been spending at least an hour/day wrestling with the server, and I'm about ready to say uncle. Adobe's info says that CFMX Standard edition is "ideal for delivering a single website or application on a single server", and clearly I'm way beyond having a single site or application. However, I'm wondering whether others on the list have run the standard edition with a similar number of sites/applications. Let me know if you think it's time to upgrade, or whether I should just keep tuning this fiddle. Thanks, Michael ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:306284 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
