Michel,
The sites could be down for numerous reasons, and none may even be cf-related.
To decide if you should upgrade to the enterprise edition of ColdFusion, check the
comparison chart and see if any of the features enterprise offers are ones you need:
http://www.allaire.com/handlers/index.cfm?ID=13570&Method=Full&Title=Edition%20Comparison%20Matrix&Cache=False
The way sites are coded makes a big difference, as well. I've seen bad code produced
by large companies as well as small ones. Following CF's best practices is the way to
go, and efficiency at the application level is what should be checked and
double-checked first. A poorly written application will run poorly on the server no
matter what hardware/software configuration you have.
-Andy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michel Vuijlsteke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 8:52 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: CF Server stability
>
>
> Hello one & all.
>
> Looking forward to your thoughts on this.
>
> I tried to access www.halhelms.com and www.fusebox.org just now
> and noticed
> they were --yet again-- down. Parts of www.allaire.com go down
> every now and
> then. Every so often even Ben Forta's site goes off-line.
>
> I assume that those sites were created by people that actually know
> ColdFusion.
>
> Does anyone know what is going on here? I consider myself quite an
> experienced ColdFusion coder, but it seems sometimes even the simplest of
> sites (I'm talking a db-generated menu on the left hand side, 50 visitors
> per day and that's it) can bring down a server without any discernible
> cause. And on the other hand we have sites that take millions of hits for
> months on end without even blinking.
>
> So it's not the traffic, it's not the hardware (bog standard intels with
> plenty of RAM and HD), it's not the OS (Redhat 6.2 or Win2K, CF
> 4.5.1 sp2),
> it's not the database (separate MS SQL servers) and it's not the
> programming
> (I trust myself there).
>
> And judging from the well-known CF sites that are often down, I'm pretty
> sure I'm not the only person with these problems.
>
> My only conclusion is that the product itself must be instable.
>
> Now I'm prepared to wait for a new version if that is going to
> solve all my
> problems... but will it?
>
> And in the meanwhile, would upgrading to CF Enterprise help at
> all? Or do we
> look for a hardware monitoring/load balancing solution?
>
> Or do we just give up on ColdFusion for the moment and wait for Neo or
> whatever it will be called?
>
> Michel Vuijlsteke
>
>
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