RE: Development and Testing Environment Recommendations

2010-03-11 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
: Jessica Garruto [mailto:jgarr...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 8:13 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Development and Testing Environment Recommendations We are fortunate enough to operate in an environment where we are alotted ample hardware resources, so we can operate separate physical

Re: Development and Testing Environment Recommendations

2010-03-10 Thread Jessica Garruto
We are fortunate enough to operate in an environment where we are alotted ample hardware resources, so we can operate separate physical servers if that's the recommendation. The point about development failures affecting our test environment is well-taken. To date, we've not needed to run load

Re: Development and Testing Environment Recommendations

2010-03-09 Thread Tony Bentley
Jess, Have you considered VM? This could solve the problem without needing another server. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive:

Re: Development and Testing Environment Recommendations

2010-03-09 Thread Dave Watts
In an ideal world, do you think we should put both Test and Development environments on one box (using separate IPs such as site-dev.siteUrl and site-test.siteUrl), or create multiple sites using VMware, or utilize two entirely separate servers? And are there considerations for each of

RE: Development and Testing Environment Recommendations

2010-03-09 Thread Bobby
At work, we handle all of our Dev and QA environments on virtual servers so we can set it up exactly like production without buying all of the same hardware twice. At home, I use VMWare Fusion on my Mac to mimic whatever environment I need to when developing/testing. Virtualization gives you

Re: Development and Testing Environment Recommendations

2010-03-09 Thread Kevin Pepperman
Another vote for VM from me. elasticserver.com is great-- I have an paid account there, I want to support them because they are awesome! Another very nice thing is you can test ANYTHING without worrying about a sever failing. Plus, it is very easy to load test an app-- you can limit the memory