Re: CF 8 Instance Clustering: for performance? or failover?

2008-03-20 Thread Steven Wood
With multi-server CF8 you can duplicate an instance and then link them together as a cluster on the same machine. Does this improve performance in any way? Or is it purely for failover should 1 of the instances halt in any way? And with the failover circumstance, how are you notified

CF 8 Instance Clustering: for performance? or failover?

2008-03-17 Thread Steven Wood
With multi-server CF8 you can duplicate an instance and then link them together as a cluster on the same machine. Does this improve performance in any way? Or is it purely for failover should 1 of the instances halt in any way? And with the failover circumstance, how are you notified if one

Please Review CF Cluster Diagram

2008-02-27 Thread Steven Wood
We are inexperienced with ColdFusion clustering, but believe that it would server us well if we started implementing it with our upgrade to CF8. We currently run multi-instance CF7 across 2 production servers... but without clustering. In essence, the servers are mirrors and essentially live

Is the need for multiple CF instances diminishing?

2008-02-06 Thread Steven Wood
Our business is sort of an ASP model where we have a single, main application to which we essentially sell subscriptions to large clients. Over the years, those clients have demanded unique changes to the app that have caused the main code base to split into separate versions. Currently we

Re: Is the need for multiple CF instances diminishing?

2008-02-06 Thread Steven Wood
Whoa What about the ability to run your instances with different JVM args and allocate memory and resources specifically? And what about leveraging more than 1.6 gigs of memory using multi-instances? It seems to me there are resource issues that multi instance addresses as well. Okay, this