CF8: Standard v. Enterprise

[mickeyj2]

Hi,

Quick question. I'm about to purchase CF8 for my company. I have about 8 domains that I'm going to host on (1) web server. There's my main website that's something like:

http://www.mycompanyhere.com

and then (7) subdomain sites like:

http://subdomain1.mycompany.com

thru

http://subdomain7.mycompany.com.

Here's my question. I know I can accomplish the domain/sub-domains by using virtual domains, but will CF8 Standard edition support it?

I've been on Adobe's site and I got worried when I saw under CF8 Standard that it is "Used for delivering a single website or application on a single server". I actually have more than one website.

Adobe's explanation for CF8 Enterprise is that its "Used for delivering multiple websites and applications on one or more servers".

My company doesn't need that quite yet, so I thought we could use the Standard version for now and worry about upgrading to the Enterprise edition later.

Am I correct?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

mickeyj2

 

[imstillatwork]

You can run many many many applications on standard. Enterprise really comes in to play when you need server clustering running for power and redundancy.

We run over 100 commercial web sites for our clients on a single Standard Edition CFMX7 with NO problems, even at peak times.

Kevin

http://www.lot-o-nothin.com/cfml/

 

[imstillatwork]

BTW: I also have CF8 developer edition on my laptop running about 6 domains concurrently. Go for it.

Kevin

http://www.lot-o-nothin.com/cfml/

 

[ecobb]

He's right. I used to work at a hosting company that had over 100 sites running on CF Standard.


Hope This Helps!

ECAR
ECAR Technologies

http://www.ecartech.com

"My work is a game, a very serious game." - M.C. Escher

 

[mickeyj2]

Hi imstillatwork and Ecar,

Thanks! That feedback helps alot. I was talking with a salesperson last week and he said the main disadvantage to running your applications concurrently on Standard is if one of your domains goes down, then so do the other ones.

But the way I see it is I'm going with a well-respected managed hosting company who guarantees 100% uptime, so if one of my domains does go down, then they'll revert to backups, etc. to get us back up and running.

I think I'm going to stick with Standard for now until I see our company out-growing it. But could you share your thoughts on one domain bringing down all of the others?

Thanks!
mickeyj2

 

[imstillatwork]

CF Standard runs ONE copy of the ColdFusion Server application. That one single application will run multiple web sites. So if the ColdFusion Server application crashes, all the web sites it is running are down.

With enterprise, you have the ability to launch multiple instances of the application, so that if one fails the others are still alive.

Kevin

http://www.lot-o-nothin.com/cfml/

 

[ecobb]

I think what your salesperson was referring to was the use of

http://www.mycompanyhere.com,

subdomain1.mycompany.com, etc. By "domain going down", he most likely meant that if your DNS record screws up for mycompany.com, then it shuts down all of your websites, whereas if they each had their own name it would only shut down one site.

This really has nothing to do with CF or what version you're running.

Hope This Helps!

ECAR
ECAR Technologies

http://www.ecartech.com

"My work is a game, a very serious game." - M.C. Escher