CF Hosting - Windows or Linux?

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August 20, 2012
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I'm about to sign up for a Hostek accout to move my wife's website to. I noticed that they offer both IIS and Apache flavors, and I'm sort of wondering if it makes any difference at all.

Being a Linux user, I am used to things like Apache, CPanel, and unix permissions, but I have this idea in my mind (and maybe it's wrong) that CF was originally built around a Windows platform, and as such, IIS hosting would somehow be more "polished".

I probably would be fine chosing either option, but I was wondering if anyone here had any opinions either way.

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Dan_Bracuk

Inspiring

I suggest picking the option that matches your development environment, especially if you are developing on Windows.

BreakawayPaulAuthor

Inspiring

I have a Linux machine (my primary machine) and a Win7 machine, so it could be either. But I prefer do to web development work in Dreamweaver, so I guess that answers that.

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spsb84

Inspiring

Hi,

ColdFusion is released for Win/Linux/Solaris/Mac systems and is fully tested to run smoothly on these tested environments with reference to the web-servers.

You can go through the support matrix for the same, to ascertain the web servers versions for the specific CF version:

CF 9: http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/pdfs/cf9_support_matrix_4_ue.pdf

CF10: http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/coldfusion/pdfs/cf10/coldfusion10-support-matrix.pdf

Most of the people are on Win and IIS combination. But, the global environment scope of CF makes sure that, it is running on other systems with other web servers too.

HTH.

Rg,

Spsb84

BreakawayPaulAuthor

Inspiring

About what I expected. Thanks!

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Steve Sommers

Legend

I think it boils down to whatever you're more comfortable with. My experience is the opposite of yours in that I work almost exclusively in the Windows environment. Most posts I see are from people that are from one camp or the other. I don't see many O/S ambidextrous people -- at least not CF people. Other than the usual "my O/S is better, stronger, faster, more popular than yours" argument, I have not see many post about missing features or problems in the Linux flavor of CF so, as I opened this with, whatever you're more comfortable with. Good luck.

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