RE: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:03 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame? > He still didn't act like he believed it. Do those numbers seem high to any > of you? I'd have to think there are plenty of people out there seeing much > more load than that on a CF serve

RE: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

Ha! The little CF Engine that could! Nice. .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: UXB Internet [mailto:denn...@uxbinternet.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:15 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame

Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

I remember two black Friday's ago HP and MS Live did a 40% off promotion. They linked from Live.com (now Bing) into HP's website though a promotion link. This wasn't heavily advertised I think partially b/c MS and HP didn't want to sell millions of these specials. Anyhow when this launched at 1

RE: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

Hmmm.. CF_HamsterWheel.. sounds like the next great ColdFusion framework :) -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:03 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame? > He still didn't act like he believe

RE: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

>> Rep: How many requests per hour do you handle on a server? >> Us: About 50,000. We have this little server running a 2ghz Celeron with 1gig of memory on 7Krpm IDE drives win2003 IIS6 and CF5 talking to a networked MSSQL server and it routinely handles on average 1.1 to 1.6 million requests per

Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

> He still didn't act like he believed it. Do those numbers seem high to any > of you? I'd have to think there are plenty of people out there seeing much > more load than that on a CF server. They're very good numbers, but not unbelievably high. It really boils down to what the server's actually

Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

elieved it. Do those numbers seem high to any > of you? I'd have to think there are plenty of people out there seeing much > more load than that on a CF server. > > > .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. > Bobby Hartsfield > http://acoderslife.com > > -Original Message--

RE: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

sfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: rex [mailto:li...@pgrworld.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 1:45 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame? Any technology can be setup so that it doesn't scale well, or not scale at all. This can be on PHP, d

RE: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

> I have some friends piling on Coldfusion because the www.cbo.gov > website is > down. Drudge linked to it I guess and crashed the site and they are > blaming > CF. The error is HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. Isn't this > an > IIS issue? How would you respond to "well the cbo.gov, it

Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

Any technology can be setup so that it doesn't scale well, or not scale at all. This can be on PHP, dotNet, Rails, IIS, Apache, Nginx... I could go on... One server can only handle so much. Getting linked on drudge would send so many people to a site, and depending on how that site is setup,

Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

I keep trying to post to this thread but HOF is down. hehehehe!! Why is no one mentioning the Java argument? Ask your friends if they think Java sucks and can't handle load. Then you got'em by the gonads. Will ~| Order th

Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

called, by ColdFusion. > > > andy > > -Original Message- > From: Robert Harrison [mailto:rob...@austin-williams.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:17 AM > To: cf-talk > Subject: RE: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame? > > > Maybe you should mention to them that

Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Greg Luce wrote: > I have some friends piling on Coldfusion because the www.cbo.gov website is > down. Drudge linked to it I guess and crashed the site and they are blaming > CF. The error is HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. Isn't this an > IIS issue? H

RE: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

>> How would you respond to "well the cbo.gov, it's running on >> coldfusion. so no big shock there" If forced to I would explain to them their lack of knowledge on how things work, their simplistic view of complex technical issues and then to ward off the inevitable look of surprise at their pe

Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

> +1 on Dave's suggestion for a better class of friends ;) public class BetterFriend extends Friend { // ... } ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-D

Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

> +1 on Dave's suggestion for a better class of friends ;) public class BetterFriend extends Friend { // ... } ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-D

Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

+1 on Dave's suggestion for a better class of friends ;) Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone - Reply message - From: "Dave Watts" Date: Wed, Jul 28, 2010 10:17 am Subject: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame? To: "cf-talk" > I have some friends piling on Coldfusion because the www.cbo.gov

Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

Well, it isn't CF. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/03/25/441074.aspx Note how frickin' old this news is. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 28 July 2010 22:38, Robert Harrison wrote: > > This myspace page sure looks like CF to me: > http://se

RE: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

This myspace page sure looks like CF to me: http://searchservice.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=sitesearch.friendfinde r Since I don't use my space is possible they are using both CF and .NET. I wouldn't know for sure. I just know what I picked-up from Ben Forta's list of CF sites. Maybe that

Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

> I have some friends piling on Coldfusion because the www.cbo.gov website is > down. Drudge linked to it I guess and crashed the site and they are blaming > CF. The error is HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. Isn't this an > IIS issue? How would you respond to "well the cbo.gov, it's run

RE: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

If JRun Shuts down you will get this. Most likely there is a long running script. Rick -Original Message- From: Mark A. Kruger [mailto:mkru...@cfwebtools.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:16 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame? Silly... the question is was

RE: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

ubject: RE: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame? Maybe you should mention to them that Myspace and the US Senate are ColdFusion. They seem to handle the traffic just fine. It's as likely a server resource problem as CF. Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive Services Austin & Williams 125 Kenne

Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

MySpace isnt CF it's .NET. Unless they went back to CF... On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Robert Harrison wrote: > > Maybe you should mention to them that Myspace and the US Senate are > ColdFusion. They seem to handle the traffic just fine. > > It's as likely a server resource problem as CF. >

Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

> The 503 error could also be related to the web server (Apache or IIS). Right. Actually, that's likely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#5xx_Server_Error > It all has to do with HOW the site is written. ...and what hardware it's running on. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:09

RE: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

Maybe you should mention to them that Myspace and the US Senate are ColdFusion. They seem to handle the traffic just fine. It's as likely a server resource problem as CF. Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive Services Austin & Williams 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 Hauppauge NY 11788 P : 6

RE: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

Silly... the question is was the site architected for the expected load ANY technology has to be properly implemented. Mark A. Kruger, MCSE, CFG (402) 408-3733 ext 105 Skype: markakruger www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -Original Message- From: Greg Luce [mailto

RE: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

Greg... The 503 error could also be related to the web server (Apache or IIS). I'd just tell your friends that ANY site would go down under the traffic sent by Drudge Report unless it had lots of resources. Hell Twitter has load issues weekly and they're running Rails (I think). There's NO lan

Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/evangelism_kit/ http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/customers/ On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Greg Luce wrote: > > I have some friends piling on Coldfusion because the www.cbo.gov websit

Re: www.cbo.gov down. CF to blame?

> > > How would you respond to "well the cbo.gov, it's running on coldfusion. > so no big shock there" > I'd say "ya... ya... well... at least I... well... um... well... lets so YOU make a PDF with one line of code!" Then throw down a smoke bomb and run away in the confusion. ~