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Anonymous
January 28, 2009
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Server setup for Coldfusion 8

  • January 28, 2009
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What would you recommend to be the best setup in terms of memory, space, configuration of drive(s), etc if you were to put Coldfusion 8 enterprise on a Windows server? Let's look at it not from the minimum requirements perspective, but maximum. Thanks.
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    Anonymous
    January 30, 2009
    As rwstoner states, CF can be a beast. But it all depends on your application. If you've got a basic application or suite of applications, then you don't need that much hardware.

    I've got to work with an application that does a fantastic job of stressing a dual socket, dual core 8GB machine with two instances using a static 3GB of memroy.

    I'm currently in the process of setting up a couple of big quad socket, quad core machines with 16GB of memory and configured to boot and run from a SAN. These two guys are going to take us to 3 instances with a static 4GB of memory per JVM per server.

    I can't recommend enough getting a copy of Fusion Reactor to monitor what your system is doing with the given applications running on it and scaling from there.

    There is also a lot of documentation out there about setting up JVM's and multiple instances and best practice and all of that. Might want to search around some for those docs.
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    rwstoner
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    January 29, 2009
    ColdFusion can be quite a beast in terms of resources depending on your usage and setup. A server containing two Dual Core or Quad Core processors, 4 GB of ram, and two 250 GB drives in a RAID 1 array would be able to handle most things you threw at it. The RAID array would provide recursion for data retention purposes.
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