If they're still using CF, they are hiding it pretty well. Maybe I was
distracted by the visuals, but none of the URL's seemed CF-like.
-Bill
brainbox
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen M Aylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: ColdFusion is NOT suitable for Enterprise Solutions
> And Shall we not forget the best CF site going - IMHO - Victoria's Secret
> :-)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nat Papovich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 1:09 PM
> Subject: RE: ColdFusion is NOT suitable for Enterprise Solutions
>
>
> > Autobytel.com runs dozens of webservers in a farm with millions of hits
> per
> > day. They have had no problems and are actually converting their stuff
to
> > Fusebox.
> >
> > ToysRus.com (now all part of amazon.com's backbone), which at one point
> was
> > running over 100 webservers handling their traffic at xmas shopping
season
> > was another example. You cynics out there might say that toysrus.com
went
> > down a lot that season. I've heard from the lead programmer there (a one
> Mr.
> > Medinets) that the reason they went down is because an Allaire
Consultant
> > came out to their site, checked out the application and recommended a
> > certain number of CF servers to handle their expected load. Well along
> came
> > the expected load and those servers died - too many hits. After getting
a
> > bunch of servers overnighted from Dell, toysrus.com was successful.
> >
> > Finally, my own little piece of scalable news: I recently built a prom
> dress
> > retail site (last fall) in Fusebox and CF. When I finished it, we were
> > already getting 10,000 hits per day. A few months later (after ads
> appeared
> > in seventeen magazine) I reviewed the WebTrends reports and we were
> > averaging 500,000 hits per day on one dual-proc server. Peak days were 1
> > million plus hits. Site was always really fast. I recieved no errors for
> > months from that site.
> >
> > Therefore, CF and Fusebox are both enterprise worthy.
> >
> > Check out http://fusebox.org/Files/presentations/Scalability.ppt for
Doug
> > Nottage's (lead tech dude at autobytel) presentation on scalability.
It's
> > very thorough.
> >
> > NAT
> >
> >
> >
>
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