Cold Fusion

@jmanhart:

Does anyone have experience installing and running Cold Fusion MX 6.1 on a Linode? I am fed up with shared Cold Fusion hosting providers and I want to migrate a medium sized CF production web site to a Linode with my own CF license. I assume I will need lots of extra RAM, but does anyone else have any other experience or suggestions? (I didn't find any other discussion on this topic elsewhere in these forums.) I assume that it has been done successfully before as the Linode control panel appers to run on Cold Fusion. Thanks in advance.

John

You'll need lots of RAM - especially with 6.1 since it holds a lot of the on-the-fly compiled classes in RAM.

I ran into a few troubles getting started. First the installer didn't detect that I was headless (this was 6.0) and didn't setup the configuration files correctly. I believe this has been fixed. If not, I can give you the setting. Also, certain Xlibs have to be present or the cf startup with simply segfault without warning.

Also, there are certain bugs in the way a UML handles NPTL (Java) programs. I've not had any problems with linode.com kernels, but I've had endless problems with my roll-my-own UML.

I'll let you judge performance for yourself. Mine is for testing, so it's not a big deal.