Dakota Clum and Ryan Brown talk about “ColdFusion Hosting options (what to consider when choosing a CF host)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.

“......you shouldn't have to be trapped with one hosting option or one provider. So when we think about the AWS are the answers of the world, when there's a need for those specific resources are specific tooling and libraries, we want to be able to support that. So, to your point, there's no kind of lock in, or anything like that you shouldn't do one or the other, you should keep all the options open to you. ”

https://youtu.be/fwMKwg_J2QM

Show notes

What is new in CF hosting this year?

Adobe is moving to an annual release schedule

Investment in CF

Adobe committed 10 years of support

What to consider when choosing a CF hosting?

CF support at app level, server layer, 

Responsible esp

updates/hotfix support and proactive patch

CF admin access

All major release of ACF supported and able to rollback to older version during migration if needed

Security

Reliability

Security

Patching

WAF firewall

End point protection

ColdFusion Hosting options

AWS/Google/Azure

Docker containers

Easier clustering on the fly, pay only for time needed

Scalable pricing but harder to budget 

VPS Cloud 

Your own server

Resize on the flip

Faster and easy backup and restore and cloning

Dedicated server

Pay monthly

Shared

Cheaper, but other users can use up resources / crash server

On prem, managed, co-location

Your own ACF license

More control of physical server - he organization rule or in

Load balancing

Cluster CF servers

Cluster database servers

Azure SQL Database

Geo-failover

Caching front end such as CloudFlare

ACF Licensing on your own versus a cloud provider

Adobe cloud license

Bring your own license

CPU Core count

ColdFusion Tuning & Optimization

ColdFusion Installation & Configuration

Config of CF server and JVM

Patches of CF, Java, Windows

JVM memory use

Tuning to your app

CF package manager

Support

Patch & Hotfix support

Dedicated box - they self support as their

VPS level has best support

Shared level has worse support, as the money is not there to pay for it

Might as well self host using Docker and DigitalOcean

ColdFusion Upgrade Protection

Access to new versions for migration testing

Lucee vs ACF

Older versions 

Need for AWS specific features

Docker and Kubernetes 

Backups

Backup strategy and retention time

Onsite and offsite

Disaster recovery (DR) plan

Server, CF server settings, CF code, Database

Protection against ransomware attacks

Test your restores and DR plan

Cost vs Downtime

Future of CF hosting

More CF adoption 

Multi-cloud

Annual release cycle and new features

App hosting pre-tuned vs genetic CF hosting

AI

FusionReactor AI features

CF AI features for security and performance and tuning

Mentioned in this episode

ColdFusion Hosting: How To Choose the Best One 

Fun stories about different xByte customer experiences

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Dacota Clum

Dakota is CTO at xByte Hosting with a specialization in cloud and dedicated infrastructure solutions. He is responsible for delivering secure and innovative solutions that helps organizations reach scale. With a strong focus on customer satisfaction and innovative problem-solving, Dakota possesses a passion for helping organizations adopt enterprise cloud solutions.

Links

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dakota-clum/

Email: [email protected]

 

Ryan Brown

CMO for xByte hosting

Ryan graduated from Virginia Tech with an Accounting Information Systems degree and has been in the I.T. industry for 28 years.