> I have some friends piling on Coldfusion because the www.cbo.gov website is > down. Drudge linked to it I guess and crashed the site and they are blaming > CF. The error is HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. Isn't this an > IIS issue? How would you respond to "well the cbo.gov, it's running on > coldfusion. so no big shock there"
It's probably not an IIS issue. But you can find sites that fail using any technology, or likewise succeed using any technology. You could point out highly-scalable sites like http://www.voanews.com/, which is one of the top performing news sites in the world according to a monitoring company: http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/07/15/downtime-for-major-news-sites-in-2008/ Or, perhaps better yet, you could find a better class of friends. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:335799 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
