Speaking to one point here.... I'm not a fan of putting all these together on the same box. In particular I don't like bundling the web server and DB server together. But in regard to your point about Exchange and SQL server stepping on each other - that's not terribly likely. MS "small business server" is exactly this bundle - SQL + exchange. And they work together fine. I don't like using such a DB since it shares resources with exchange (I prefer the DB to be isolated above all other components in the system) - but compatibilities between exchange would be less likely than some of your other points.
-Mark -----Original Message----- From: Eric Cobb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:48 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: New 64-bit Dev Server Exchange, SQL, and CF on the same box? That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen! Here are a few things that jumped into my head when I read your post: What happens when you're debugging code that keeps crashing the server, and you have to reboot a dozen times a day (from an Exchange perspective)? What happens when the latest patch for SQL Server isn't compatible with Exchange (why would it be?), and it kills your email server? SQL Server will eat as much memory as it can get its hands on, how will that affect your Exchange server? How much memory/hard drive space are you going to have to have to support a dev. appication server, dev. database server, and production (I assume) email server? Personally, I would keep Exchange off of the box. The CF/SQL setup wouldn't be too bad, but there's no way I would load a production email server on to the same box. That's just my $.02, though. Thanks, Eric Adrian Lynch wrote: > I'm setting up a new development server that'll house CF 8, IIS 6 and > SQL 2005 on Windows 2003 64-bit. The reason for 64-bit is that it's a > requirement for Exchange 2007 which will also be on this box. > > Can anyone shed some light on whether there will be any problems with > this set up? I've been reading up on WoW64 and the requirements for > the various software but any other input would be great. > > Thanks. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:291832 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
