>You can certainly run multiple vhosts in front of a single CF >instance. The nitty-gritty will depend on what you're specifically >attempting to do, but it absolutely works. And so does the reverse >(running single vhost in front of multiple CF instances). > >The more instances you have, the more times you have to pay JVM >overhead. I.e., each JVM needs to load all the boilerplate Java >stuff, so with 25 instances, you're effectively loading the Java core >25 times into memory. Obviously that's very desireable if you need >differentiation between your instances (different JVM version, >different security provider, etc.), but if you want the same thing for >everything, it can be needlessly expensive. > >Somewhere between running a single instance and running a bunch of >different instances is running multiple webapps within a single server >instances. Then you pay the CF overhead each webapp, but the JVM >overhead only once per server. > >The short answer is that you have a lot of options, and CF will >support the majority of them. The only place I've gotten into trouble >is trying to merge the CF webapp with other webapps and then run a >single combined webapp. But it doesn't sound like that's what you're >interested in, so I think you should be good. > >cheers, >barneyb > > >>As far as loading the JVM into memory 25 times - if I have each instance >>running in their own memory space then doesn't that JVM just load up in that >>memory space and not encroach upon the memory of the other instances?
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