At work, we handle all of our Dev and QA environments on virtual servers so we can set it up exactly like production without buying all of the same hardware twice.
At home, I use VMWare Fusion on my Mac to mimic whatever environment I need to when developing/testing. Virtualization gives you the flexibility you will need and is definitely my suggestion. -----Original Message----- From: Jessica Garruto [mailto:jgarr...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:32 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Development and Testing Environment Recommendations We are formalizing new development and testing environments for our ColdFusion web sites and I would like to know what recommendations other developers/administrators have regarding server configuration and/or best practices. We are currently running multiple ColdFusion 8 sites (~10) on IIS/Windows. Most of our sites require SSL. We should probably be able to run both SSL and non-SSL versions of the sites on the development environment. We have several new 64-bit servers available for these updated environments. (Additionally, we also develop and administer several Java sites; right now it looks like they will most likely live on their own set of servers.) In an ideal world, do you think we should put both Test and Development environments on one box (using separate IPs such as site-dev.siteUrl and site-test.siteUrl), or create multiple sites using VMware, or utilize two entirely separate servers? And are there considerations for each of these scenarios? Thanks in advance for your insights... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:331496 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
