We have 6 CF servers that span our application. Internally I can access each server on the private network by IP address. Our servers also share a single file system so the files are all ways in sync. I wrote code that can be called from any server that then lets me pick any one or more servers to reset via remote cfhttp call to a private password protected service. This then calls the application reset code. Since we also use the server scope I have a similar routine for that as well. We NEVER restart the ColdFusion servers. We have 82 days since the last restart on four of our servers and those were due to hardware upgrades the other two servers have gone 218 days since their last restart.
Our Mlsfinder.com web application is used so heavily that even with 6 servers we do not ever want to shut one down midday. It would cause thousands of users to loose their sessions and bounced to another server. As I type this I see over 10,700 active user sessions spread across the servers, so that's why I wrote the code for the remote resets. Also, external URL based resets are bad since if discovered it can be exploited and essentially cause a DOS attack by continuously resetting your server. Wil Genovese Sr. Web Application Developer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:323637 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
