[cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Brad Fleming
Hi everyone, Has anyone heard of, or had any success in, running ColdFusion in the cloud? I've seen some old blog posts around 2008/2009 about CF9 being setup in a cloud environment on Amazon EC2 but haven't had much luck beyond that. Any advice/info would be appreciated. -- Cheers, Brad

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Brad Fleming brad...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone heard of, or had any success in, running ColdFusion in the cloud?  I've seen some old blog posts around 2008/2009 about CF9 being setup in a cloud environment on Amazon EC2 but haven't had much luck beyond that.

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Brad Fleming
Hi Sean, Thanks for that. I was mainly looking for confirmation that it could be done as I couldn't seem to find much info on it (although I may not have been looking in the right places). Do you know of a link that could give me some info on the process of how it is set up? Cheers, Brad

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Brad Fleming brad...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for that.  I was mainly looking for confirmation that it could be done as I couldn't seem to find much info on it (although I may not have been looking in the right places).  Do you know of a link that could give me

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Brad Fleming
Oh ok, great, I didn't think it would be that simple for a virtual server :-) Thanks for the advice. Cheers, Brad Fleming http://twitter.com/Captn_Brad http://cfugwa.com On 23/03/2011 8:17 AM, Sean Corfield wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Brad Flemingbrad...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Sean Corfield
They're exactly like regular servers. The only thing you have to watch out for is if the disk image is reset on a hard restart (e.g., regular Amazon EC2) so you need to use EBS or take a snapshot of your base configured image and save it to S3 as an AMI - assuming you're using Amazon. Rackspace is

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Mark Mandel
Amazon is pretty cheap to get up and running and have a play - so I'd say get in there and get your hands dirty :) Pick a Amazon AMI, which is a virtual image (Amazon has it's own Linux flavour too) of the whole OS already installed, and you can log in and do whatever needs doing very easily.

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Brad Fleming
Great, thanks for that, Sean. That's very handy advice. Cheers, Brad Fleming http://twitter.com/Captn_Brad http://cfugwa.com On 23/03/2011 8:27 AM, Sean Corfield wrote: They're exactly like regular servers. The only thing you have to watch out for is if the disk image is reset on a hard

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Brad Fleming
Hi Mark, Thanks for that. The AMI option sounds like a good plan. As for physical vs cloud, I was wondering that same thing myself. I'll have a play around and see how it goes. Cheers, Brad Fleming http://twitter.com/Captn_Brad http://cfugwa.com On 23/03/2011 8:27 AM, Mark Mandel wrote:

RE: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Dale Fraser
://dale.fraser.id.au http://cfmldocs.com http://cfmldocs.com/ http://learncf.com http://flexcf.com From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaussie@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brad Fleming Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2011 11:38 AM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Brad Fleming
://learncf.com http://flexcf.com *From:*cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaussie@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Brad Fleming *Sent:* Wednesday, 23 March 2011 11:38 AM *To:* cfaussie@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud Hi Mark, Thanks for that. The AMI option sounds

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Dale Fraser d...@fraser.id.au wrote: Just be aware that the application generally needs substantial changes to work in a cloud. That's not true. Standard applications can run in the cloud just fine. The database just needs to be on persistence storage (such as

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Mark Mandel
That's not entirely true - the files you put on your AMI snapshot stay there (for non-EBS), and EBS instances retain their files from restart to restart. But if you're on Amazon - there are services readily available to manage things like CDNs and MySQL etc. There is some extra complexity in

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Zac Spitzer
http://flexcf.com From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaussie@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brad Fleming Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2011 11:38 AM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud Hi Mark, Thanks for that.  The AMI option sounds like

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Zac Spitzer zac.spit...@gmail.com wrote: With EC2 you are also pretty much completely on your own support wise. It's liking having your own dedicated servers in a colo so, yes, in that respect you'll get no CF-specific support. Amazon is for people who know how