Sadly, in my experience almost all CF problems are due to the coder(s) who built the system and seldom have anything to do with CF itself, unless it was bad CF settings -- again, human error.
Its the answer no systems guy or gal wants to hear: its their own fault (or hopefully the blame can be laid off on their predecessor(s) ) I pretty much make a living going in and cleaning up established systems so they STOP exploding at regular intervals. One of the first things I put in is a site-wide error handler that dumps errors and all scope contents' to disk so I have a complete picture of the system at point of failure. The rest is just legwork: cleaning up the mess. In the end a busy server should be only throwing a few errors per day, and those only because perhaps my client doesn't want to reinvent a certain wheel for a bunch of cash and is willing to put up with X faults daily -- especially when they know they were at X*100 when we started out. I'll also acknowledge that early CFMX had its share of problems but those have largely disappeared. One thing I can point to also is the desire to do too many things on a server. In the past I've been (in)famous for being able to stretch resources. Getting CF running right, and then being able to put on a mail server and a db server on the same (overbuilt) box. No matter what your server specs, that is an inferior way to go about things and should ALWAYS be avoided... speaking in hindsight. I started out running everything on one big box. Then I broke off the db and stability went way up. Then -- recently -- I went ape and turned a 2-server system into one that uses 5. I use a lot of little servers to do the same job I formerly needed 2 big ones for and stability has gone thru the roof while costs have decreased. My CF/IIS server hosts about 50 small- to mid-trafficked sites and I never even need to restart CF anymore. Formerly when the CF server was also hosting stats and mail/antispam I needed to restart it in the wee hours every day. Taking away supposedly unrelated items gave the box the breathing room it needs to run forever. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Janitor, MSB Web Systems mysecretbase.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:253251 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
