Throttling has no place at all in a Coldfusion app

All requests are not equal, a request for one .cfm does not equal another.

Give me a Coldfusion app with a CFTHROTTLE tag and you can crash it in a
heart beat, It may cope with well formed requests but throttling, traffic
shaping and general application protection has to be done at the right layer
and CF server level isn't it.

There are well formed requests VS rogue requests to consider

By putting a device(read linux box) in front of the server you can monitor
the request response time and choose to back off requests accordingly based
on the actual performance of your application rather than some notional
threshold.

I would check out HAProxy which is ideally suited to this type of job or
VarnishCache whether or not your interested in the caching facility.

My 2p

A

On 22 August 2011 20:50, Alan Holden <[email protected]> wrote:

>  There's something called mod_bw that looks promising.
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