ColdFusion MX on Red Hat 9

Is it wise?

[nysus1]

Hi,

I've heard that ColdFusion is unstable and a bit tricky to get up and running on a Linux server and can eat pretty heavily into system resources.

I'm thinking about installing ColdFusion MX on a Red Hat 9 server and wondering if anyone else had problems doing so. I'd appreciate anyone who is willing to share their experiences.

Thanks!

[DaveAtIFG]

If you haven't done it already, it may be worthwhile to check the Macromedia and RedHat support pages.

[JoeG]

Hi nysus1,

Here are my thoughts on CF/RH.

I have a RH 7.2 and CF Mx 6.1 running. I've had that combo of RH and Mx running for about a year now 24x7. I also run Apache, MySQL, DNS, and Mail on the same server. In the last year, I have only had my system down twice. Period.

Once to install a new UPS and other time was to upgrade the Kernel. Other than that, the system is incredibly reliable. I even upgraded Mx to 6.1 w/o a reboot.

Ok that's the good news.

Now for the other side of the coin.

RH is dropping ALL support for 7.x, 8.x on 31 Dec 03 and 9.x on 30 April 04. Booooooo Hissssss

Won't be able to even buy support from RH (like I do now) for their Up2date service

I personally wouldn't go to RH 9 yet. I am facing the same issues as you right now. I have RH 9.0 disks in-hand and am trying to decide whether to go with the $349 version of RH or move to SuSE or Debian. Sigh. No clean choices, I could build a good case for using any of them, but the thing I am watching most right now is what Macromedia isor going to support. Sort of the tail wagging the dog issue.

Let me know what you find out

- joe

[nysus]

Joe,

Thanks for taking the time to help.

I was thinking of downloading and compiling the RH source code directly instead of buying it. Maybe that's not a good move?