Ow! That hurt. -----Original Message----- From: Russ Michaels [mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 3:37 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: considering two options for changing hosting
Mark, there is a very good reason I do not tell people there is a workaround to get MSAccess working on 64bit, and no you definitely should not encourage such things, you are a bad bad man and I am giving you a virtual slap right now.. On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Mark A Kruger <mkru...@cfwebtools.com> wrote: > > Russ, > > You can make access Run on 64bit - it's just not very easy :) I know I > know > I should NOT be encouraging such things (ha). > > > http://www.coldfusionmuse.com/index.cfm/2010/12/31/Access.on.64bit.ColdFusio > n > > -Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Russ Michaels [mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:52 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: considering two options for changing hosting > > > MSAccess does not work since windows server 2008 as the jet drivers do not > exist for 64bit OS, so your host must be running 2003 still on 32bit. > So the days of running MSAccess have already gone years ago, you are just > running on a legacy windows 2003 system, which reaches EOL this July. > > If you want to know why CF has so many issues on shared hosting, then read > this > > http://www.michaels.me.uk/post.cfm/why-coldfusion-railo-are-not-suited-to-sh > ared-hosting > > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Stephens, Larry V <steph...@iu.edu> > wrote: > > > > > I echo everything said below except I am on shared hosting. I've had some > > issues with slow response and failure to connect and, at least twice, > they > > volunteered to move me to a different host to solve the problem. I'm > > running multiple sites with them. > > > > There have been times when I'm pretty sure they didn't read all my > support > > request and gave a kneejerk response, but we worked through that. If I > was > > starting any new sites they would go there. > > > > I'm pretty sure the days of running Access are limited. I still have a > > couple of sites, too, and they don't work real well. The connections keep > > dying and have to be restarted by the support staff. I'm converting them > to > > MSSQL. > > > > > > Larry V. Stephens > > > > > > I made the switch to Hostek (https://cp.hostek.com/aff.php?aff=931) a > few > > years back and I have been very happy with the decision. I just went > > through a server upgrade over the weekend in which we ran into an issue > > with a couple of old sites that are still running on MS Access. Their > > support staff were very diligent and were able to work out the issue for > > me. I have not worked with their shared hosting, but their VPS service > has > > been top notch. > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:360337 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
