Choosing a CF webhost - whats the difference CF Enterprise or Professional??

[JimUK]

Hi all,

am looking at getting my CF (MX7) site hosted and was wondering what the difference is (security, performance etc) between hosts who use the enterprise version and those who run the standard version?

Those who run the enterprise version say its very important, but those who run professional edition dont see the problem, so i'm in need of a bit of impartial and knowledgeable advice!

any answers gratefully received

Thanks

Jim

[strivinglife]

Have you taken a look at http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/productinfo/product_editions/ (bottom of the page)?

At the company I work with, we're running CF 6.1 Standard and have found it to do everything we need.

Background: We need to connect to multiple MS SQL databases, run a db-driven CMS, and have thousands of views per hour.

Of course, things have changed since 6.1, so I don't know how knowledgeable re: 7 this is, but I'd say Standard should be fine, depending upon what kind of applications you're running.

[tbarr60]

It used to be that hosting companies were supposed be using Enterprise version only. I forget if it was a contractual reason (limited number of sites per license) or a technical.

The bigger concern is if they understand what to enable and disable. I am trying a host that seemed to have a lot of features disabled but they said they didn't install the Java components but it turned out they didn't have a number of JavaScript (used as part of CFFORM including the format="Flash" option in CF7) so I added the files into my site that should be in the application.

Other sites have allowed to much freedom on things like CFDIRECTORY (wanna see every file in other peoples accounts?).

Make sure they allow all the tags you need and also ask them about security, they should mentions something about sandboxxing or isolating the accounts.

[advantage]

Hi,
One allows you to do load balancing etc -- which your host is unlikely to offer anyway.

Coldfusion administration is an art. You should stage your coldfusion applications locally first in case end up on a poorly configured server or have bad neighbours.

[ccoonen]

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