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Anonymous
February 27, 2008
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godaddy and Coldfusion Mappings

  • February 27, 2008
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Most shared hosting providers such as godaddy will not setup the mappings setting on their server. Is there a way around this?

My website is an ecommerce site and will need the mappings setup done in coldfusion administrator but they simply refuse to setup the logical and directory path. Without the mappings setup, the site will not function.
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    Newsgroup_User
    Inspiring
    February 27, 2008
    abhishek77 wrote:
    > I am just starting up a business and also with godaddy shared hosting on
    > linux, they provide 300gb space and 3000gb monthly traffic, unlimited domains.
    > Is this not a good deal?

    Depends on what factors you use to define "good". GoDaddy provides nice
    basic CF hosting, but you are not going to get a lot of help with it.
    You get what you get and that's it. Their tech support is not known to
    be very CF knowledgeable.

    I happily use them for my personal, vanity, ColdFusion website where I
    do not need advanced features or any type of support. But for my
    professional site I use CFDynamics. More expensive for sure, but they
    have treated me well with technical support such as creating mappings,
    upgrades (I am now on CF8 with them), ect.

    The problem with hosting a critical site, such as a e-commerce site, on
    shared hosting is that you are at the whims of everybody else sharing
    the same box as you. If any one of them do something that kills the
    box, everybody is down until if is fixed. If you can live with this
    risk then ok, but it is good to understand it.

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    Anonymous
    February 27, 2008
    Taking everything into account i may go for this hosting package but the main concern is the mappings setting within cfadministrator.
    Is their a way around this on a shared hosting package?
    for example the logical path is /lib and directory path is C:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\976evil.com\lib
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    Anonymous
    February 27, 2008
    I feel that shared hosting is economical.
    I had recently signed up for coldfusion shared hosting with a company called cwcs.co.uk.
    They were very helpful and had even setup the mappings directory within cfadmin. But the main issue i was having was with the mysql database. Therefore i cancelled my contract with them. I think mysql 5 is not supported as i was getting errors when try to use functions and stored procdeures.

    I am just starting up a business and also with godaddy shared hosting on linux, they provide 300gb space and 3000gb monthly traffic, unlimited domains. Is this not a good deal?

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    Newsgroup_User
    Inspiring
    February 27, 2008
    cf8 allows per-application mappings...
    but with an 'ecommerce' site, i would stay clear of shared hosting,
    unless i was just toying with it and did not really expect to make money
    on it... ESPECIALLY from godaddy shared cf hosting...

    but then it may be just me...

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