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."
Show notes
What is new in CF hosting this year?
- Adobe is moving to an annual release schedule
- Adobe committed 10 years of support
What to consider when choosing a CF hosting?
- CF support at app level, server layer,
- 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
- 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
Need for AWS specific features
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
Bios
Dakota 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.
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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. His career began talking to customers about their business needs as a sales engineer for an ERP software company. Since then, he has ventured into product management, marketing, and multiple leadership roles. Beyond knowledge of both software and hardware technologies, he has an expertise in understanding business' needs and finding the right solution.
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