On 11/13/05, Mike Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or they are quite likely to be using the industry-leader HELM control panel
Never heard of it. When I moved my site from one plan to another, the hosting company gave me an IP address in lieu of a domain name so I could test my site worked just fine before they switched DNS. The only problems I had were web server config related, not CFMX related. But, yes, I am very well aware of the difficulties inherent in migrating code from one service to another so kindly don't belittle my knowledge in that area Mike! macromedia.com, with its hundreds of thousands of lines of code has been migrated from CFMX 6.0 through various updaters to 6.1 and more updaters to 7.0 and recently 7.0.1. We've hit some glitches along the way (nearly all of which were problems with our CFML code, as it happened) but testing, testing, testing is the mantra here. We sic a large QA team on each minor upgrade for weeks at a time, running the site on internal servers before we roll the upgrade out to production and, even then, often only upgrading one server instance out of a dozen for the first week. I'm under no illusions that this is trivial stuff. However, my advice remains true: if your current hosting company has screwed-up mappings, you should tell them and you should make plans to move to a new hosting company. Unless people do this, hosting companies won't fix the problems. If my site was business critical rather than just a personal diversion (and, I hope, useful service to the community) then it would be on a dedicated server. I've moved it three times in the last five or six years, across different plans and across different hosting companies. I know it isn't always easy to move - I never claimed it was. I said it was a simple business decision to choose a dedicated server if your business depended on it. The short-term cost of the technical issues caused by a move is a one-off. The long-term benefits are clear. Not everyone needs a dedicated server. But please don't complain about sharing server space with other users if you've made the choice to use shared hosting. It *is* a trade-off (just like so many things in life!). -- Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/ Got frameworks? "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
