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Godaddy drops ColdFusion - ISP Recommendations?

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September 1, 2011
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We just got notice that Godaddy is going to stop supporting ColdFusion on Novebmer 29th 2011, not a whole lot of time to relocate to a new service provider

Can anybody out there recommend a good, preferably large ISP that they have had good experiences with? We need CF8 and MS SQL

Thanks!

Mark

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Correct answer ACS LLC

Godaddy's connectivity has been pretty stable, and we had all of our domains there, so I decided to go for the easiest option which was to stick with them, and set up one of their virtual servers. It was actually very, very easy to get everything back up to speed, and inexpensive, so far so good. We've had a few server slow downs which I can only put down to somebody taking more than their fair share of resources, but over all it's worked out very well, and having our own 'server' so to speak has made life much easier, now that there are no restrictions on CF functions, with the ability to add our own tags etc..etc

Mark

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Capt Obvious

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Ben forta's site has a good ISP review section that has always been pretty reliable.

http://www.forta.com/cf/isp/

if you are looking for quiality (as apposed to cheap) cfhosting in the UK then I recommend trying www.cfmxhosting.co.uk, they really know CF well and have great reviews on fortas site.

ColdFusion 5 is even still supported.

Avoid hosts who just offer Coldfusion, this is not really the same as supporting it, most of the hosts that offer it simply install it on the server but know sod all about how to support it, a lot like GoDaddy also only run CF professional ediiton which has no sandboxing, so either they have to disable lots of tags and functions, or they leave them enabled resulting in a totally insecure server where customers can read/write/delete each other files.

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Adam Cameron.

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if you are looking for quiality (as apposed to cheap) cfhosting in the UK then I recommend trying www.cfmxhosting.co.uk, they really know CF well and have great reviews on fortas site.

You probably should have added some "disclosure" there, RussL: it seems to me like that's your company.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/russmichaels:
Director of Operations at BlueThunder Internet Ltd

http://www.cfmxhosting.co.uk/index.cfm?action=aboutus:
"CFMX Hosting (soon to be BlueThunder Hosting)"

There's nothing wrong with promoting yourself, but I think you should be up front about it. Otherwise it might seem like you're a bit disingenuous.

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Adam

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ACS LLCAuthor

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So Russ, you must be a Brit, only a Brit would say "know sod all about it" (I'm also a Brit living in Sunny Orlando)

As I posted a little while ago, I decided to just get a Godaddy virtual server, it's worked out ok, I've got a ticket in with them now about performance as the performance is a little questionable, they don't seem to have the ability, or choose not to allocate fixed CPU resources to each V.S. so if somebody else on the hardware is hammering it, it has the potential to slow up my server. Once I release to site we'll find out how it stands up.

The also have dedicate servers with plenty of guts that I could move to.

What I like about them is that they are so large that they are able to provide a strong infrastructure, so we never have any connectivity issues.

Mark

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Michael_G__Workman

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If you are looking for a new hosting service that supports ColdFusion, a good place to look is the list of ColdFusion partner hosters on the ADOBE website.

Do not feel that you have to abandon ColdFusion, which is a great platform for rapid web app development and it supports XML and webservices. Some other paltforms may be in wide usage but that does not mean ColdFusion is lacking, it is not. There are still plenty of hosting providers who support ColdFusion.

At the following link on the ADOBE website is a list ColdFusion hosters:

http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family/hosting-partners.html

Hope this helps.

Michael G. Workman

mworkman@usbid.com

http://www.usbid.com

http://ic.locate-ic.com

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thomas mcauley

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Absolutely. ICG Link has been hosting sites since '95 and have supported every sort of language including ColdFusion since its inception. They've not only survived but have thrived through the Internet bubble and two market crashes. I know from a good source they're NOT planning on dropping that support until the last customer is gone. They're top-shelf and double redundant. I don't think they're going anywhere.

I was thinking ColdFusion was going to drop off after GoDaddy's announcement, but it seems more than a few customers aren't taking this as a death knell but as an opportunity to catch the folks who have been, in effect, dropped. When I searched GoDaddy ColdFusion Support I got pages like this: http://www.icglink.net/godaddy-coldfusion-support.html

The fact they're actively recruiting ColdFusion clients is a good sign for CF.

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TWeber_TheSBA

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GoDaddy has always treated ColdFusion like it was some type of an add-on service. You could spend hours pointing out the good and bad GoDaddy has done for the hosting industry (this obviously isn't the proper place for it), but they are not the only host out there.

Most reputable CF hosts have no plans to drop it. We want those hosting at GoDaddy to know that they can easily find a new home for their websites...http://cpc.thesba.com/coldfusion/godaddy/...and they don't have to abandon those sites or start over with a different programming language.

Just because GoDaddy no longer suppots CF does not mean it is a dead platform at all!

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ACS LLCAuthorCorrect answer

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Godaddy's connectivity has been pretty stable, and we had all of our domains there, so I decided to go for the easiest option which was to stick with them, and set up one of their virtual servers. It was actually very, very easy to get everything back up to speed, and inexpensive, so far so good. We've had a few server slow downs which I can only put down to somebody taking more than their fair share of resources, but over all it's worked out very well, and having our own 'server' so to speak has made life much easier, now that there are no restrictions on CF functions, with the ability to add our own tags etc..etc

Mark

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Sandy R

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I have been with http://www.hostingatoz.com for several years.

They are cheap and very very good hosting provider for Personal sites. Highly recommended.

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insuractive

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I remember seeing a good thread on recommendations including some good details about the different options out there on Ben Nadel's site: http://www.bennadel.com/

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sallison72

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I have been very pleased with Hosting.com, they are probably the largest CF host in the country and have great shared, vm, and deticated packages.

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TheSBA_Web_Services

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Mark,

The Small Business Authroity offers affordable and very stable ColdFusion hosting as well. We've been hosting CF for years (under our previous name, CrystalTech).

Along with knowledgable 24/7/365 support, our shared plans also provide SQL space....and we have no plans to ever drop CF!

Good Luck,

Tommy Weber

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Joshua_Cyr

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HosTek or gowesthosting.

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