Actually, Rick, the majority of our code base was written by Flash designers who had to learn ColdFusion to extend and customize a poorly written home-rolled framework that was originally written on top of CF 4.5. Only within the last two + years have true ColdFusion developers written new applications within our system, updating an existing template here and there when they could. It's 3,000 templates of largely unscoped variables and equally poor architecture, that is only now beginning to get turned around. Our systems actually stand as a true testament as to how powerful ColdFusion is, and how much abuse it can withstand. And, up until a few weeks ago, our development environment has never mirrored our productions servers, and we are finally implementing version control as of today. Such is the case of any poorly staffed and busy development team where the suits define priorities, change can come mighty slow in the wake of pursuing revenue.
Yes, 500 different sites, with different code bases from all levels of developers, can very well cause a shared hosting server to come to a screaching halt. But my point was that, with the new and/or upgraded sandboxing and user level controls that have been added to ColdFusion 8, these issues become *less* problematic than they have been in the past. It will help if a company maintains a qualified, and diligent, ColdFusion server administrator on staff. Steve "Cutter" Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _____________________________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Rick Root wrote: > C'mon people. > > There is a huge difference between running 1500 sites using the same > codebase in a well organized cluster, and a "shared hosting > environment" like we're talking about. > > If you're running 1500 sites using a single codebase, I'll bet you've > spent a lot of time optimizing the code for performance, and you > probably have a good test environment so you don't bring down those > 1500 sites when you make changes and stuff. > > On the other hand, since we're talking about hosting companies, > imagine 500 sites on a single server, all with completely different > code, written by developers of *ALL* levels of experience, and with > development/modifications often being made to the server, not a test > environment. > > Rick > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2?sdid=RVJT Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:280275 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
