CFMX is reasonably stable, IMHO. Things to think about:
1) Have a good caching strategy - your product catalogs, photo galleries, news and events pages, and such probably do not need to be real time. You can just as easily cache the data for CF to spit out or have CF create html files for that stuff. 2) Offload chat / video applications to another server. 3) Use anything besides CFMAIL for the bulk email - CDONTS will work just fine. 4) Try to use ICQ for instant messaging, there's no feature you should need that it doesn't have. M -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Potenza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 4:17 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: CFMX: Stability? All thoughts/experiences welcome I'd like everyones thoughts and experiences with CFMX - with and without the updates (they're up to 3 already). When I initially did some testing about 2 months ago I thought it was horrible because every time I hit any CF page, it hit 100% cpu usage to compile it then it served it to the browser. I have a VERY large, VERY important project coming up and the people who setup the server installed CFMX instead of CF 5 like I asked, but I want to know if it's worth it to keep it. The site is an intranet site with a maximum load of probably about 500 - 600 people at a time - which I don't expect to ever reach that, but of course I want to program for the worst case scenario. The site will be very database insensive (MS SQL 2000) - displaying current news and events, having community and personal photo galleries, classified ads, file depots, community and personal calendars, message boards, product catalogs, chat, instant messaging, live video broadcasts, and bulk email. And that's not even all of it, so you can see how I need this to perform very well. Please respond with any information you have, any ideas, etc. Thanks in advance, Joe Potenza BigBuzz Web Design 516.845.0702 x314 http://www.bigbuzz.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
