[thelist] Cold Fusion

[Thomas Klepl]

Would just like to mention that I host CF sites with three different shared
hosting providers and they all allow secure usage of file manipulation tags
(cffile, cfdirectory) within the web root. Also, CFCs are not global to all
sites--not sure where you read that. And as someone else said, datasource
user/pass is not a problem if you set these globally in application
variables.

Assuming you use the latest version of ColdFusion and you are experienced
enough to set up the server properly, I don't see how it would be a
nightmare.

Tom


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[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Joshua Olson
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Subject: RE: [thelist] Cold Fusion



A lot of people have responded, but I do want to add one big negative for
CF.  In a hosted environment it's absolutely yucky.  Things like Custom
Tags, CFC's, etc are all global to all hosted sites.  You cannot allow file
manipulation only within the webroot (they may have fixed this in later
versions, but as of 5.0 this was a big issue).  Calls to COM Object
serialize execution (again, fixed in CFMX I think).  Datasources are
accessible to all sites.. sure you can make it so that each site needs to
use a password to access the datasource, but then you have to pass the
password with each query... again YUCK!

Bottom line, CF shared hosting is a nightmare.  I hope that they will fix
this completely someday soon by allowing site-by-site configurations.