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May 12, 2008
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Standard vs Enterprise different?

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I'm trying to find out how to calculate the maximum connection/capability of a server in real life.
Let's say, I've a dual xeon with 4GB ram + HD RAID5 or SAS... WIN or LINUX + CF8 32 or 64 Bit.

For your experience, in a company that has connection around 50 users. Is this enough for that hardware + CF8 Standard Edition?

Then when I should consider Enterprise version? One of my customer has ~200 users, should I change hardware + version of CF?

The application is based on Flex + CF. Not much PDF generation. Usually use Transfer-ORM, ColdSpring, + PostgreSQL backend.

I've this problem because I don't have enough experience for CF server. Please someone, guide me how to choose between Standard & Enterprise version.
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Inspiring
May 12, 2008
jedt3d wrote:
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> I've this problem because I don't have enough experience for CF server. Please
> someone, guide me how to choose between Standard & Enterprise version.
>

I have seldom seen throughput or number of users as reasons to choose
between standard and enterprise. They both will handle considerable
load and numbers like 50 and 200 should be a drop in the bucket for each
server depending on what type of heavy load tasks they may be expected
to carry out.

I.E. a heavy processing application used by 10 users could bring a
enterprise server to it's knees while a standard server could easily
handle 10's of thousands of users on a well thought out and properly
scaled application.

Factors you probably want to consider are features. Standard, at this
time, is only 32 bit. So if you want to make use of 64 bit hardware you
probably want to consider enterprise.

Enterprise allows multi-home and J2EE configurations. Multi-home allows
for single box application isolation and roll over effects as well as
the ability to make use of more memory then a single JVM can access. A
bit under 2GB for a 32 bit installation. J2EE configuration allows you
to use other Java Servers then the built-in JRun4.

Enterprise as more throughput for some tasks such as e-mail, gateways
and such. Some of these features are single threaded on standard while
they make full use of multi-thread capabilities in the enterprise version.

My gut instinct from your original post is that Standard would probably
be enough for you. But if you want to speak to somebody in Adobe you
could provide real answers try one of these contacts.
http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/9/ColdFusions-Dedicated-Account-Managers