Any ISP that offers Cold Fusion hosting should be included in the testing
of new Cold Fusion server software on that ISP. However, all the testing
in the world is never going to identify all the problems that will occur in
a given environment and it is much easier for an ISP to point the finger of
blame at Allaire or Cold Fusion when a problem occurs than to admit that
they have overburdened the server, failed to install a patch, or just plain
screwed up the configuration. The issue isn't really which ISP's will Cold
Fusion work with, but is the environment on which the particular instance
of Cold Fusion is installed robust enough to support the application and
demand. CF 4.5.1 may not be any more stable than 4.5 but if it fixes the
bugs that are creating problems on the particular app without causing more
problems, then it should be used. If not, then it should not be. This can
only be determined on a case by case basis and which ISP has little or
nothing to do with it.
In the case of AOL, they have little or no regard for how well their
application or servers work with the rest of the world, but since they have
such a large customer base, developers have to consider the impact to the
client of loss of AOL users as site visitors and plan accordingly.
Judith Campbell
Jennifer wrote:
>So how do you determine which ISPs are large enough to justify doing this?
>You say that they should do it for AOL because it's the largest modem
>community, but what about the second largest and third largest and what
>about non-modem communities? You are trying to start them down the slippery
>slope of Allaire having to test on EVERY ISP because what makes that ISP so
>much less worthwhile than the next best one which just got testing because
>they were the next best one to some other ISP. If they started doing this
>they would have to test for every major ISP and everyone that Allaire
>didn't consider a major ISP would start bad rumors about ColdFusion not
>scaling. If they justify doing it for one, they have to justify why they
>did it. If they say that AOL has so many users that it makes it worthwhile,
>they have to define how many users makes it worthwhile. And someone's ISP
>with one too few users gets ticked. How much work do you think it would be
>every time some ISP's settings had to be accommodated?
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