All of us have searched for good solid affordable ColdFusion hosting. I was recently in this bind because Amazon changed their API requiring encryption that CFMX 7 did not provide. Had to use CF 8. So I went looking because my host (GoDaddy) did not have 8 at the time.
After much searching I settled on HostingAtoZ.com Seemed good. Now my site is a shopping comparison site and as such has a lot of searching the web going on. This never bothered the GoDaddy site at all. I try to keep the searches throttled back to prevent sucking up a lot of resources. Plus I don’t store the results in memory, I create temp tables on the database server to hold the results. This works very well.
Well right from the start, even before I had the site up, I kept losing my site. Couldn’t see it. ColdFusion is down. And so on and so forth. Seemed like 2 to 3 times a week I was having to contact support because my site was down. Then cfthread stopped working. No reply on the request for help with it. So I pulled everything out of the threads and ran them that way. Next thing I know I have a “Security violation” error. Huh?
Sure enough I get a notice from HostingAtoZ.com saying my account has been canceled. They claimed that my site was causing all their problems and they had lost many customers because of me. Oh really? Then why was it happening when my site wasn’t even running? Well, luckily GoDaddy has upgraded to CF8 (tho still tightly bound). So I’m moving it over there again. Just for now. When I get my tax refund I’m going to go for a VPS I think. I have a license for ColdFusion 8 server. Wonder if I can go for a CF9? Not sure I have that much cash.
Anyway, I noticed that in the MSSQL Server area of HostingAtoZ they had way too many databases. My guess is they bought space on a VPS and are now trying to sell as many sites as they can to make a profit. Problem is, this makes the server unstable and just 1 site can take everything down. They need to thin out the herd and focus on solid, reliable service.
Beware of cheap hosts. You get what you pay for.
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