----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Davidson" <bill@intraget.com> To: "Fusebox" <Fusebox@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 2:30 PM Subject: Re: ColdFusion is NOT suitable for Enterprise Solutions

> If they're still using CF, they are hiding it pretty well. Maybe I was > distracted by the visuals, but none of the URL's seemed CF-like. > > -Bill > brainbox > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephen M Aylor" <iincorp@home.com> > To: "Fusebox" <Fusebox@houseoffusion.com> > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 5:47 PM > Subject: Re: ColdFusion is NOT suitable for Enterprise Solutions > > > > And Shall we not forget the best CF site going - IMHO - Victoria's Secret > > :-) > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Nat Papovich" <nat@webthugs.com> > > To: "Fusebox" <Fusebox@houseoffusion.com> > > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 1:09 PM > > Subject: RE: ColdFusion is NOT suitable for Enterprise Solutions > > > > > > > Autobytel.com runs dozens of webservers in a farm with millions of hits > > per > > > day. They have had no problems and are actually converting their stuff > to > > > Fusebox. > > > > > > ToysRus.com (now all part of amazon.com's backbone), which at one point > > was > > > running over 100 webservers handling their traffic at xmas shopping > season > > > was another example. You cynics out there might say that toysrus.com > went > > > down a lot that season. I've heard from the lead programmer there (a one > > Mr. > > > Medinets) that the reason they went down is because an Allaire > Consultant > > > came out to their site, checked out the application and recommended a > > > certain number of CF servers to handle their expected load. Well along > > came > > > the expected load and those servers died - too many hits. After getting > a > > > bunch of servers overnighted from Dell, toysrus.com was successful. > > > > > > Finally, my own little piece of scalable news: I recently built a prom > > dress > > > retail site (last fall) in Fusebox and CF. When I finished it, we were > > > already getting 10,000 hits per day. A few months later (after ads > > appeared > > > in seventeen magazine) I reviewed the WebTrends reports and we were > > > averaging 500,000 hits per day on one dual-proc server. Peak days were 1 > > > million plus hits. Site was always really fast. I recieved no errors for > > > months from that site. > > > > > > Therefore, CF and Fusebox are both enterprise worthy. > > > > > > Check out http://fusebox.org/Files/presentations/Scalability.ppt for > Doug > > > Nottage's (lead tech dude at autobytel) presentation on scalability. > It's > > > very thorough. > > > > > > NAT > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm

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