We also have about 80% of our sites on shared servers, while the other 20%
are mainly ColdFusion dedicated servers.
It is smaller development companies like ours that could potentially be
affected by the changes to the hosting licensing.
BUT WAIT... Maybe we won't have to change our plans and investments just
yet... A while ago, on this list, someone posted about a product called
TagFusion, which has since had to change it's name to TagServlet
(www.tagservlet.com), this could be an option for us. I have not tried the
product out, but will look further into this.
It would mean that we can still use our beloved, rapid, ColdFusion, without
having to rush out and learn yet another language. I'd say a lot of the
enterprise features of CF won't be found in TagServlet, but then are the
smaller web development companies looking for those? If we want them, they
are generally going to be used in an enterprise environment in which case a
dedicated server will be used, and therefore no crazy hosting licensing!
Has anybody tried TagServlet? Can anyone comment on it?
N
on 4/29/01 9:30 AM, Massimo, Tiziana e Federica at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> On the enterprise side of things, is anyone using PHP for enterprise-wide
>> applications? If not, why not?
>
> Not only because I don't do enterprise-wide applications but also because
> scalability in PHP is very limited, no support for cluster etc...
>
> PHP is a very nice and still young tool, that is getting better, but, again,
> if you look at it, you can see that, for example, that session variables
> were added just on PHP 4, less than a year ago, and the way they works
> doesn't lend itself very well to scalability...
>
> As for me, 80% of my job on web applications is about small websites where I
> use CF and Access and rely on hosting companies for a decent service at
> 20-30$ a month. A crucial point for me to keep using CF instead of ASP (as
> the vast majority of my competitors) is that it doesn't add any additional
> costs for hosting if compared to ASP.
>
> The other 20% of my job is about larger apps, with SQL Server and CF, there
> some additional costs in hosting shouldn't cause me too much troubles, right
> now I am in the 50-100$ range, and my larger customers can live with it,
> maybe even with something more, but this is true only for the larger
> customers, higher costs on ISPs could easily make me move the smaller apps
> to a Unix/PHP/MySql solution, definitely cheap, not that easy to handle for
> my junior coworkers but also with some advantages (Unix stability, for most
> things MySql ways better than Access, great choice on ISPs).
>
> Well, I was learning PHP/MySql anyway, I think I will never stop loving CF,
> but I hope I will not see ISP's dropping support for it or asking too much
> money, in meantime, I will wait to see how things evolve.
>
> I live in a very small region (the italian part of Switzerland) where the
> vast majority of customers are local, small size companies, but I don't
> think I am alone in a similar scenario, depending a lot on the kind of
> hosting services ISPs can offer.
>
> ----------------------------
> Massimo Foti
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ----------------------------
>
> My own Corner of the web
> http://www.massimocorner.com
> Dreamweaver, Ultradev and Fireworks goodies
>
> It should be this hole in the ozone layer
> But I am not the coder I use to be...
>
>
>
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