Thanks Robin, That explains it well. So it's primarily of benefit for development rather than production.
I can see the use for shared hosting companies of letting users each have their own CFAdministrator, but I'm not sure I'd let a lot of users have it. I've got quite a few developers on my system, and they could all use the CFAdministrator, but I also have lots of small business users who dont even know how to set up an email account on the control panel, after I've shown them twice. I wouldnt let them get their sticky little fingers into a CFAdministrator!!!!!!!!! Can you expand a little on "Merge your app and the CF app into a single zip, deploy with exactly the same settings etc as when you tested it." please? what files would I zip up, apart from the files I write myself and put under wwwroot? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:53:20 +1100, Robin Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Kear wrote: > > I've meant to ask this for a while now ... why do people run multiple > > instances of ColdFusion? > > > > I can see that one reason would be to run them in a development > > environment, and have different setups to match the client's differing > > environments, but is there any other reason? > > > > Otherwise, wouldn't multiple instances of CFMX just consume more of > > the server's resources? > > - Separate cf admin settings and passwords > - Start and stop apps independently > - Isolate unstable (ie. dev version)/untrusted apps in their own instance > - Cluster unstable apps that have to work across multiple instances > - Different CF versions at same time > - Merge your app and the CF app into a single zip, deploy with exactly > the same settings etc as when you tested it. > - Separate CF server instance for each virtual host in your web server. > - In particular the ability to run dev versions of a site on the > production machine with same hardware and OS without having to buy a > second server license is very powerful. > > Robin > http://www.rocketboots.com.au > > --- -- --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
