Thank you everybody, I'm glad I asked. I have changed my plan now. Cameron and others made a good point. I was trying to do too many thing at once. My plan now is to get a new hosting environment as similar as possible to my current one, so its gives me the most chance that I'll be able to just copy everything over and most of it will work as is. Then work from there on the transition to Linux or the cloud and Railo in two more steps.
Thanks to a suggestion from another member of this list off-list I'm not going with the cloud just yet, I'll go with a VPS at Viviotech and work from there. So far every question I've asked they have said "yes we can do that all you do is .... " Once again this group helps me out. In this case, I can see if I had gone with my original plan, it MIGHT have worked out ok, but with my luck the odds were that it would give me a lot of grief before it was all said and done. Thank you all I'll let you know how it all turns out. Cheers Mike Kear On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Money Pit <websitema...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Having been there/done that myself, I would follow Cameron's described > route. You don't want to be debugging so many different issues at once on > an OS you aren't intimately familiar with (and maybe not familiar at all). > You mentioned you are on Win2003. Have you by chance missed out on running > CF on a 64-bit Win OS? That was like manna from heaven when I first > switched. > > Consider a Windows VPS from Viviotech. They can license you a copy of CF > Enterprise *very* inexpensively. They are surprisingly robust for the > prices charged, they are CF-literate and an excellent firm on general > principles. From there consider leasing another Windows VPS and put Railo > on it (Viviotech will do this for you for a small setup fee or for free > IIRC). Then tinker away, migrate a low-profile site over when you're ready > etc. This is what I did with my personal sites. You could take it a step > further and after mastering Railo, retire the Windows/Railo VPS, fire up > one with linux and start over again on the tinkering so you limit your > issues to that part of the change. > > If you need more horsepower and have the budget for a CF license, look at > the blade servers at Cybercon; check out their hardware configs. I don't > see how you can beat those prices. My servers there have been absolutely > reliable. > > -- > --m@Robertson-- > Janitor, The Robertson Team > mysecretbase.com > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:358215 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
