I had to share my two-cents on this one....
We currently have an NT machine with 17 different CF apps running on
it....that's 17 different URLS, getting hit by various users, at different
times, all dynamic, most attached to Access databases, the rest to SQL, some
with regular scheduled updates every night, others just sit and wait and we
never have any ColdFusion Server issues.
(I must knock on wood now...)
The machine is just a DELL 2400 running 512MB RAM, 9 gig hardrive, IIS
w/sp5? I think, and CF 4.5 (I know, I know, we must update the CF)
Now we aren't constructing rocket ships and figuring out the square root of
the earth's circumference or running any kind of e-commerce on these sites,
but all the sites are coded around a username and login, with the usual
Custom Tags and other cool nifty features of threaded message boards and
<cfmail>....
Bottom line.....I think CF is pretty stable, at least for us.
Erika
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-----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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