99.9999% of the time the reason a site is down is not the CF Server. It's
either the database, the web server itself, or most commonly the CODE. I
administrate multiple servers with hundreds of individual web sites running
Cold Fusion code of some sort or another. Rarely does CF Server cause any
problems at all. I even have a site that averages 6000 requests per hour hat
runs an intense CF Ad rotation program.
Never had any problems with stability.
jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michel Vuijlsteke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 8:51 AM
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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