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Jul 25, 2007
Looking for Cheap ColdFusion Hosting?
My buddy Glenn Gervais has posted a very useful post covering ten ColdFusion hosts under $10. I know for a fact that Glenn has spent a good deal of time researching this topic, and it shows in the post. I think his article also directly addresses a complaint you hear from people who are used to PHP hosting prices (sure you pay only pay $5 a month...but then you are forced to use PHP ;).
Personally, I have had so many issues with shared hosting in the past (even with the big names) that I am not a fan of the whole concept. However I do recognize though that it is often necessary and sometimes the budgetary concerns are worth the trade-offs. It would be great to have people comment on Glenn's blog and share experiences with the hosts he lists (both good and bad would be helpful) or post other hosts within the price range that are not listed. Perhaps he will keep this list up-to-date going forward because it is a great reference. Thanks Glenn.
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May I ask what kind of issues you've had with shared CF hosting?
Generally speaking, eventually somebody would get on the server that didn't know what they were doing and would cause myself and everyone on it trouble. The last time I was on a server that was fine for six months until somebody got on it and caused it to time out and crash multiple times a day. I tried working with support to no avail and eventually just gave up. This wasn't an entirely new situation...seems to happen quite frequently.
I don't know much about the administration side of CF, but does the problem you're describing apply to shared hosting in general or is CF particularly vulnerable to such problems in a shared hosting environment? I've had a problem similar to the one you described on a PHP shared host, and now I'm looking for a good CF host for a project I'm working on for a client.
On the one hand, I read an article on the Adobe site that seems to say that as long as your shared host is running the Enterprise version of CF and implementing Sandbox security, your site should be well protected from bad code on someone else's site on a shared server. But I've also read somewhere else that Coldfusion really isn't MEANT to be run on a shared server and should only be run on a dedicated machine.
On the one hand, I read an article on the Adobe site that seems to say that as long as your shared host is running the Enterprise version of CF and implementing Sandbox security, your site should be well protected from bad code on someone else's site on a shared server. But I've also read somewhere else that Coldfusion really isn't MEANT to be run on a shared server and should only be run on a dedicated machine.
@Tony - sorry for the delay in responding, you caught me on vacation last week and I am still playing catch up.
The problem is with shared hosting in general. The more people on your server over whom you have no control, the more possibility that someone will do something stupid and screw the server up. There is only so much the host can do to prevent a user form creating a script that causes the whole machine to bog down or crash.
Even with tools like SeeFusion, for example, HostMySite regularly misdiagnosed the issues on the server. For example, SeeFusion would kill a loop on my site as taking too long and if I complained support would tell me the issue was in my code (i.e. BlogCFC). The real problem was that someone else's site was bogging the whole server down, thereby causing my request to hang.
If you are lucky, the host will let you move to a new server when these issues occur, but that could be very inconvenient and may only just buy you some time since the scenario of sharing a server with hundreds of sites with varying code quality didn't change.
P.S. I only bring up HostMySite as an example from my experience, but in general I find them to be a very good host, as shared hosting goes and the comment should not be construed as any sort of indictment of them in particular.
The problem is with shared hosting in general. The more people on your server over whom you have no control, the more possibility that someone will do something stupid and screw the server up. There is only so much the host can do to prevent a user form creating a script that causes the whole machine to bog down or crash.
Even with tools like SeeFusion, for example, HostMySite regularly misdiagnosed the issues on the server. For example, SeeFusion would kill a loop on my site as taking too long and if I complained support would tell me the issue was in my code (i.e. BlogCFC). The real problem was that someone else's site was bogging the whole server down, thereby causing my request to hang.
If you are lucky, the host will let you move to a new server when these issues occur, but that could be very inconvenient and may only just buy you some time since the scenario of sharing a server with hundreds of sites with varying code quality didn't change.
P.S. I only bring up HostMySite as an example from my experience, but in general I find them to be a very good host, as shared hosting goes and the comment should not be construed as any sort of indictment of them in particular.
No worries, Brian, hope you had a good vacation.
And I see what you mean. Sandbox security is a measure against malicious hacking, but I guess there's little you can do against just plain bad code bringing servers down. Wish me luck!
And I see what you mean. Sandbox security is a measure against malicious hacking, but I guess there's little you can do against just plain bad code bringing servers down. Wish me luck!
We have hosting our site at efree2net.com. They support Coldfusion 8 with sandbox security. We have hosted our site more than 5 years, everything are great, good price, reliable and secure. High rate from us.
efree2net.com is terrible. Not only do they not do what they say (charging $10 to transfer your domain and then not doing it despite you giving the authorization code required to do it), but the sites go down multiple times a day without any type of courtesy e-mails going out. I am leaving them as soon as I find a RELIABLE solution.
Hello, we use BMChosting.com for our ColdFusion apps and has been rock solid for us for years. They offer cf 6,7,8 & 9. They are a smaller company but offer technical support and not just plan help desk answering a phone.
-Cheers-
Greg
-Cheers-
Greg