[WEB4LIB] Cold Fusion question

[Christopher A. Poterala]

It's not a library site, but I've helped develop a site that runs CF 4.01
Enterprise, NT 4, IIS 4 and uses SQL Server 7 as the db.  The site gets
1.2 million hits a day and approx. 30,000 sessions.  It hums along.  The
dumb thing we're doing is running all of these services on one box.  If
the money becomes available, we'll be splitting SQL Server off to its own
box.

If you're wondering if CF is robust enough for the task, the answer is
yes.  Most of the problems I have encountered with dynamic sites that
"feel" bogged down have resulted from poorly written queries...nothing
like a nice, flat query to bring down a box.

AutoByTel uses CF, Boeing uses CF, Ford uses CF...it can handle the load.

Cheers,
Chris

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Jeff Wisniewski wrote:

> Hi-
>  While there's been some discussion on the list
> about using Cold Fusion to generate pages from
> Access databases, I'm wondering if anyone has
> experience using Cold Fusion to run queries and
> generate pages from really heavy duty databases.
> Specifically, what we'd like to do is to use Cold
> Fusion to connect directly to our catalog's
> database (we're a Voyager site, Oracle's the DB,
> approximately three million records), to generate
> database lists, ejournal lists, etc. for the web.
> I know of one or two places doing something
> similar, although they are running Cold Fusion
> against an intermediary database, populated from
> their library catalog, not connecting directly.
> We're going to be getting a trial version of Cold
> Fusion soon, so I'm interested in thoughts,
> comments, or experiences anyone has to share.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff Wisniewski
> Web Services Librarian
> 
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> University Library System
> University of Pittsburgh
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