I'll second Dave's comments, but add this: Be sure that you can afford to have all the software in question running on your box. Is it your primary workstation? Are you willing to stop the services when you're not using them? By the time you get CFMX (which means Jrun), IIS, Dreamweaver, Firworks, Eclipse, HS+, SQL Server or your DB engine of choice, and anything else like Outlook, Firefox, IE, and all the other tools you'll have to run... how much memory and CPU are you going to have left for working? Granted, Jrun only consumes (generally) between 50 and 125MB of RAM, but the real question is what's the cumulative memory and CPU consumption by the time you get all that installed and running and want to work.
Since deployment to IIS/CF and CF-standalone are identical (CF Admin to set up services like DSNs, files copied to a folder for deploying application), there's absolutely no harm in developing on CF developer stand-alone. There are a few extra things I find myself needing to do on IIS where CF Developer is pretty much install-and-go (IIS tasks include verifying the CFIDE virtual directory, JrunScripts virtual directory, and messing with host headers/virtual sites) Unless you need to do things like virtual directories or virtual sites, I'd say go for the developer standalone. Or use Apache... ;) For my little Celeron D 325 system with 512MB of the highest performance RAM I could get, I need to have CF, IIS, SQL Server all on an off-board box because it dogs out badly when I've got DW, HS+, Outlook, Excel, 4 tabs in Firefox, Fireworks, and CuteFTP all open at the same time. Gets nasty, actually. Sorry that got long, but it's not so simple a question. Laterz, J On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:21:57 -0500, Scott Mulholland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a new machine that has xp pro on it. I'm installing cf 6.1 dev > and was wondering if there was any benefit to running it through IIS > instead of the self contained web server you can install with mx? > > Does running cfmx on its own server and not IIS make it easier to also > run a .net environment on the machine later on? > > TIA, > Scott -- Continuum Media Group LLC Burnsville, MN 55337 http://www.web-relevant.com http://cfobjective.neo.servequake.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:197705 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
