While there might not be features you're compelled to upgrade to get, security *should* be something of concern. CF7 is ancient, completely unsupported, and riddled with security features. That said, I cannot in good conscience recommend paying for a CF license, no matter what version or what features it might or might not have.
I would *strongly* recommend that you research a VPS from Vivio ( https://www.viviotech.net/) and use Railo. There's a reasonable chance that you will be able to run your old CF7 apps as-is on Railo, as long as you haven't done much dipping into the underlying classes or "undocumented features". Vivio's support is second to none, and they are a huge supporter of the CFML community. HTH On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Jenny Gavin-Wear < [email protected]> wrote: > > I'd be interested to know which route you decide to take. > > I stopped taking on new clients about 2 years ago. I now look after only 3 > and their bandwidth requirements are small. They've all been with me for a > very long time and do produce a useful bit of income. > > My setup now is a windows 2003 server with CF7 / SQL 2000. Old, I know, > but > it works and there has been nothing of use to me in the upgrades, certainly > nothing to make it worth me paying the crazy upgrade costs. The server > sits > in my garage on a business broadband line, not ideal, I know this, > especially as my garage has been converted into a headshot studio for my > photography business! > > I don't have time for the major hassle of porting my sites from CF7 to > whatever CF is on now. I also integrating one of the sites quite heavily > into my SmarterMail server, such as automated generation of mail list > members and I pull the contents of one of the mail lists into an archive > made available on the website. > > Ideally I'd like to get everything shifted to a VPS, but would I be able to > run these old applications? And where could I get an inexpensive yet > reliable service? > > I'd appreciate any ideas, please. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Eidson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 08 November 2014 01:48 > To: cf-talk > Subject: RE: Is time for a change? > > > Oh I know all about the email hosting.. .Before I moved to Hostek I had a > T1 > line into my basement. Did all my own hosting, I had 2 server cabinets with > all Dells...(I still have them) pretty good setup. I started my company > with > that and then the T1 became outdated and very expensive. I used ArgoSoft > Mail Server, actually really liked it but the SPAM and Blacklist were a > nightmare. But back then my company was bigger with closer to 100 > domains/clients. I formed a partnership with another person who pretty much > screwed me over. We split up the company (lost a lot of clients in the > breakup) and I formed Eidson Empire, LLC. and moved to Hostek for my > provider. > > I still not sure what I am going to do.. I think the VPS will be more than > I > can afford right now. Maybe if I land about 10 more clients I can justify > it. > > Rick > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:359611 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
