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September 3, 2011
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GoDaddy QUITS Coldfusion

  • September 3, 2011
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I just received an email from Godaddy that they'll no longer support Coldfusion hosting on their servers within a couple of months.

Finito. All coldfusion websites on godaddy will have to be taken down.

For me, this is a huge burden, because I have several sites that I now have to find hosting for and waste all this time to configure again onto some other server. What about people who have businesses running on Coldfusion??

I'm sad by this. I mean, Godaddy is one of, if not, THE largest hosting company. For them to just trash coldfusion is bad sign for me.

I always worried after making the decision to use coldfusion that it would be put away someday due to its small audience. This worries me.

What do you guys think of this?

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    12Robots
    12Robots
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    September 3, 2011

    GoDaddy was never a major player in ColdFusion hosting. If you chose to go with them for CF hosting I offer you my condolences.

    This is by no means the beginning of the end or any other such nonsense that people like to spew when someone decides to stop using ColdFusion. There are a bunch of other hosting options (much better ones) than GoDaddy.

    Do a simple Google search on ColdFusion hosting and you will find a myriad of shared hosting, VPS, VDH, and Dedicated hosting options that offer ColdFusion support. Of course they will range in price, but I know at least GoWest hosting offers CF hosting for as little as $20 per month.

    Personally, I am appalled by the idea of running any kind of a "business" site on shared hosting. And if you have "several sites" each running on its own shared account then you would likely be better off investing in a ColdFusion VPS.  I've said before and I'll say again, shared hosting is for those who don't know better.  With a single VPS and a single instance of ColdFusion you could run with more power than a dozen or more shared hosting plans.

    This is a non-issue. GoDaddy shared hosting is for hobbyists and their removal of supported ColdFusion hosting speaks nothing of ColdFusion's health in the web ecosystem. What it says is that most ColdFusion developers are smart enough to seek ColdFusion hosting elsewhere. I encourage you to do the same.

    existdissolve
    existdissolve
    Inspiring
    September 3, 2011

    I don't have any business-stuff running on Godaddy, so take this with a grain of salt. Personally, I'm glad they're stopping ColdFusion hosting. They never really had it, IMO, given all the lock downs and restrictions placed on accounts. The up-time was awful, and forget getting support. This will give me a good excuse to finally cut all ties forever, which is something I've been meaning to do for a while now.

    It feels like ColdFusion was something that GoDaddy decided to try out, didn't commit to, and is now throwing in the towel. Given the number of great and cheap ColdFusion hosting providers out there that actually know what they're doing, I don't see this is as a bad thing at all.

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