hosting question

The biggest thing to watch out for is case-sensitive file names: they

are in Linux. This means that application.cfm doesn't work, it has to

be Application.cfm, and will fail if

the file is actually named myFile.cfm.

I'm not much of a dreamweaver users, but how are you syncing the files - via FTP? If so, it should make a big difference for you provided the hosting company supports FTP/SFTP.

you might want to consider a few other things though:

1. Linux is case-sensitive when it comes to directories and file names. E.g. on windows you might have a file a.cfm and it doesn't matter if you like to a.cfm or A.cfm - on Linux it _will_ matter. Best is to follow your own convention and for instance always use lower case for file names.

2. Watch out for file/directory paths: Linux /opt/blabla/whatever/b.cfm whereas on windows you have c:\gfgf\gfgfgfd\gh\gfdgfd etc. The slashes are different and in Linux you have one single entry point into your file system / whereas in Windows you might have multiple drive letters. There are CF functions to work around that, make sure you use those.

Cheers

Kai

ColdFusion runs on a Linux server just fine.  But it must be installed on the server.  And there is little chance that a hosting provider offering a linux package that DOES NOT also advertise their support of ColdFusion is going have it available to you nor are you going to be allowed to install it on a shared hosting server.

Now if your hosting solution is some time of VM, or other, hosted server package then yes, you get at least some say in what server software you install in such a situation.  But then YOU are going to be responsible for the purchase and licensing of the ColdFusion application server for at least several hundred dollars.

The most likely scenario is that you just need to find a hosting provider, linux, unix, or windows that also supports ColdFusion.  There are plenty out there for a wide range of prices some less then $10 per month.