godaddy and Coldfusion Mappings

Report · Feb 27, 2008

Most shared hosting providers such as godaddy will not setup the mappings setting on their server. Is there a way around this?

My website is an ecommerce site and will need the mappings setup done in coldfusion administrator but they simply refuse to setup the logical and directory path. Without the mappings setup, the site will not function.

Report · Feb 27, 2008

cf8 allows per-application mappings...
but with an 'ecommerce' site, i would stay clear of shared hosting,
unless i was just toying with it and did not really expect to make money
on it... ESPECIALLY from godaddy shared cf hosting...

but then it may be just me...

Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/

Report · Feb 27, 2008

I feel that shared hosting is economical.
I had recently signed up for coldfusion shared hosting with a company called cwcs.co.uk.
They were very helpful and had even setup the mappings directory within cfadmin. But the main issue i was having was with the mysql database. Therefore i cancelled my contract with them. I think mysql 5 is not supported as i was getting errors when try to use functions and stored procdeures.

I am just starting up a business and also with godaddy shared hosting on linux, they provide 300gb space and 3000gb monthly traffic, unlimited domains. Is this not a good deal?

Report · Feb 27, 2008

abhishek77 wrote:
> I am just starting up a business and also with godaddy shared hosting on
> linux, they provide 300gb space and 3000gb monthly traffic, unlimited domains.
> Is this not a good deal?

Depends on what factors you use to define "good". GoDaddy provides nice
basic CF hosting, but you are not going to get a lot of help with it.
You get what you get and that's it. Their tech support is not known to
be very CF knowledgeable.

I happily use them for my personal, vanity, ColdFusion website where I
do not need advanced features or any type of support. But for my
professional site I use CFDynamics. More expensive for sure, but they
have treated me well with technical support such as creating mappings,
upgrades (I am now on CF8 with them), ect.

The problem with hosting a critical site, such as a e-commerce site, on
shared hosting is that you are at the whims of everybody else sharing
the same box as you. If any one of them do something that kills the
box, everybody is down until if is fixed. If you can live with this
risk then ok, but it is good to understand it.

Report · Feb 27, 2008

Taking everything into account i may go for this hosting package but the main concern is the mappings setting within cfadministrator.
Is their a way around this on a shared hosting package?
for example the logical path is /lib and directory path is C:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\976evil.com\lib

Report · Feb 27, 2008

abhishek77 wrote:
> Taking everything into account i may go for this hosting package but the main
> concern is the mappings setting within cfadministrator.
> Is their a way around this on a shared hosting package?
> for example the logical path is /lib and directory path is
> C:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\976evil.com\lib
>

If you are on ColdFusion 8, you can define mappings in the
Application.cfc file. This is described in the documentation. It has
some limitations, but it should suffice for you needs.

<cfset THIS.mappings["/lib"] = "C:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\976evil.com\lib\">

This is not available in MX7 or earlier.

Report · Feb 27, 2008

quote:

The problem with hosting a critical site, such as a e-commerce site, on
shared hosting is that you are at the whims of everybody else sharing
the same box as you. If any one of them do something that kills the
box, everybody is down until if is fixed.

can the same be said in regards to vps?

Report · Feb 28, 2008

abhishek77 wrote:
>

quote:

The problem with hosting a critical site, such as a e-commerce site, on
> shared hosting is that you are at the whims of everybody else sharing
> the same box as you. If any one of them do something that kills the
> box, everybody is down until if is fixed.

>
> can the same be said in regards to vps?
>

To a much lesser extent. VPS isolates the accounts sharing a box to a
much greater extent. I assume it is still possible for somebody to do
something that will completely monopolize the CPU, but it would take
real effort.