It will run, but no matter how overbuilt your server is, you'll get better reliability from two separate servers.
For years I ran a setup like you are describing... big dual-processor behemoth with uber-SCSI drives and gobs of memory. The theory was to overbuild the single box and use all that extra capacity to run multiple apps off the same box (in my case that was CF/IIS, mySQL and SmarterMail/ASSP). When I eventually outgrew that, I went to two behemoths and put CF/IIS alone to itself, moving db and mail/antispam to its own box. Reliability went WAY up. Later, I decided to go with a lower-cost approach: A mid-grade build for web/CF (dual Xeon, 2gb, 1 73gb SCSI drive), and a single cheapo server for mySQL, another for mail, another for DNS/antispam and so on. I wound up spending less for *five* 'little' servers that each did only one or two things ($480/month) than I did for Godzilla and Megalon ($850/month for both) ... and reliability went from 'pretty darn reliable' to 'rock solid forever and ever'. I personally would never go back to doubling and tripling up like that if I could help it. My server setup: LARRY primary DNS statistics (smarterstats) backup for all the other servers (synchback, mySQL via sqlYog scheduled jobs) CURLY CF-generated smtp (smartermail) antispam gateway for human-generated mail (ASSP) MOE mySQL SHEMP CF IIS JOE Secondary DNS human smtp/pop mail server, web mail (smartermail) If I need more capacity I'd replace one of the small boxes above with a bigger one. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Janitor, The Robertson Team mysecretbase.com On 5/17/07, Jim McAtee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're finally going to be migrating from CF 5 to CFMX 7.1 soon and will > spec a new server with Win2k3 Server Standard as the OS. The dbms, > currently running on a separate Windows server, is MySQL 5.0. If we move > MySQL to the new server, how well could we expect it to coexist with > CF/IIS on the same machine? The new server will likely be far more > powerful than needed given our traffic level and the complexity of our web > sites - either a single or dual dual-core Xeon, 4GB memory, 10k RPM SAS > disks. I suspect MySQL will run faster on this machine, even with CF and > IIS running along side, and it eliminates the 100 Mbps network connection > between two machines. > > Any thoughts or recommendations? > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:278536 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
