Hi everyone

Hi everyone, After what seems like 100 years reading the archives, I just joined the mailing list and wanted to introduce myself. My name is Philip Kaplan and I've been a ColdFusion programmer since around 1996.  I'm sure others discovered CF this way -- IIS hadn't yet been invented  so I was using a web server called Orielly Website Pro, which happened to come with ColdFusion built-in.  I was in college on a summer internship (at Booz Allen & Hamilton) and my employer (thank goodness) told me to learn it. I've built a lot of sites in ColdFusion since then.  The most well-known was a site called Fuckedcompany.com that tracked the collapse of the (first?) dot-com bust.  One of the newer CF sites I built is a photo-sharing social network at www.mobog.com.  It's the first CF site I've load balanced across multiple servers, which is fun.  Incidentally it's hosted on www.gogrid.comwhich is a could-hosting thingamajig.  Happy to share my (mostly positive, some negative) experiences with it. For a living, I'm the founder and president of an ad network called AdBrite.  AdBrite was initially developed by my business partner, a PHP guy, so no CF there.  We have about 115 employees and are based in San Francisco.  I still get to use CF at the day-job to prototype stuff and build some internal reporting tools. Anyway, hello everyone! Philip

> After what seems like 100 years reading the archives, I just joined the > mailing list and wanted to introduce myself. I thought that name looked familiar.  Welcome to the list! -- Justin Scott, http://www.tlson.com/

----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- Nice one Philip! I use to check out FC all the time. What a great site that was. And of course I stumble on some of the Ask Pud blog entries ;-) Welcome to the list. Casey

<all_together_in_a_sing_song_voice>Hiiiii Philip</all_together_in_a_sing_song_voice> ~Brad > Hi everyone, > > After what seems like 100 years reading the archives, I just joined the > mailing list and wanted to introduce myself.

you eq funny :) ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

<all_together_in_a_sing_song_voice> Hiiii Philip </all_together_in_a_sing_song_voice> <Philip> Hi everyone... I am a...a....a...  Dammit!! I am a.ColdFusion Programmer. </Philip> <Philip> There I said it!! Are you HAPPY NOW!!!!</Philip> <Philip> Look!! I TRIED to give it up. Lord knows I tried. </Phili <Philip> But DAMMIT!! I just can't do it!!! It just makes me so.... so... (long.... sigh) PRODUCTIVE. </Philip> Sorry folk... Happy hour you know ;) ~G~ ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

God... That's what I get for reading messages from most recent to oldest. I was like, "WTF?!?!?" Gerald Guido wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

AdBrite eh? We'll be hitting you up for some advertising info then l;O) Oh look, a smilie with a new hair cut... A Hi everyone, After what seems like 100 years reading the archives, I just joined the mailing list and wanted to introduce myself. My name is Philip Kaplan and I've been a ColdFusion programmer since around 1996.  I'm sure others discovered CF this way -- IIS hadn't yet been invented  so I was using a web server called Orielly Website Pro, which happened to come with ColdFusion built-in.  I was in college on a summer internship (at Booz Allen & Hamilton) and my employer (thank goodness) told me to learn it. I've built a lot of sites in ColdFusion since then.  The most well-known was a site called Fuckedcompany.com that tracked the collapse of the (first?) dot-com bust.  One of the newer CF sites I built is a photo-sharing social network at www.mobog.com.  It's the first CF site I've load balanced across multiple servers, which is fun.  Incidentally it's hosted on www.gogrid.comwhich is a could-hosting thingamajig.  Happy to share my (mostly positive, some negative) experiences with it. For a living, I'm the founder and president of an ad network called AdBrite.  AdBrite was initially developed by my business partner, a PHP guy, so no CF there.  We have about 115 employees and are based in San Francisco.  I still get to use CF at the day-job to prototype stuff and build some internal reporting tools. Anyway, hello everyone! Philip

Welcome! I like http://www.mobog.com/, very fast, any advice/info on your server setup would be interesting. Andrew.

Thanks!  Sure, here's some info on www.mobog.com Hosting: www.gogrid.com - a new "cloud" hosting service.  Two web servers behind an F5 load balancer, and one db server.  Total cost $99/month.  I run a lot of sites in addition to mobog on these servers. Software: ColdFusion 8 and Sql Server Architecture: One web server (http://1.mobog.com) contains the actual CF code.  The other web server (http://2.mobog.com) just has its home directory mapped to the first server (UNC: \\1.mobog.com\mobog).  I realize this means there's a single point of failure, but I'm fine with it. Backups: www.carbonite.com - $49/year unlimited backups in the cloud. Performance: All queries are cached, anywhere from 10 seconds to 24 hours. Some queries (like the queries that show comments) are cached for 24 hours and just refresh when a new comment is posted.  So almost everything is cached most of the time for most people. ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Hey Philip, We're thinking of using GoGrid for a coldfusion server. Please let me know what experiences you've had both good and bad. Thanks for your time. ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----