Dec 15, 2009

Cheap ColdFusion hosting

Just throwing out a question.  Where are you hosting your ColdFusion sites?  I only have one shared hosting account that I use at Hosting A to Z It's OK and it's really cheap ( $30 a year or so ).  I know that every now and then they must clear the application scope ( probably due to someone using a ton of memory ) but other then that it's pretty fast once the application is running.

I also have a few VPS's in which I have my own CF server and Railo server and most of my work is on company owned machines but now and then I have someone asking for recommendations for shared hosting and I'd like to hear some feed back on people experience and who they recommend.  I have heard horror stories of managed servers running slower then shared hosting and support turnover time > 48 hours ( one of my dirt cheap VPS's has ~36 support turn around time lucky it has a decent control panel and runs linux so nothign much goes wrong ).

So whats out there that you recommend?  ( CF8 and higher only )
Posted by Paul Kukiel at 9:48 AM
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18 comments:

  1. I've had good experiences with Hostek -- cheap and good customer service (they also offer CF9)

    http://hostek.com/hosting/coldfusion/coldfusion-hosting.asp
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  2. I use hostek also; the customer service is pretty good, and they are reliable for the most part.
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  4. I'll 4th the Hostek... I have been with them over a year and have had very few problems... My only wish is that they would offer more domains for cheaper. They offer 5 domains for $25 a month and $5 for every additional beyond that. Other wise, they are good!
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  5. I am with Paul on this. I mean http://www.hostingatoz.com . Recently I contacted William C. and he told me that they are launching ColdFusion 9 premium hosting plans at very cheap prices... so we will get more power at less prices :)

    Let's see.
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  6. We host at Viviotech and have not been disappointed at all. The guys there are doing a great job and we have been satisfied very much.

    Gert Franz
    Railo Technologies
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  7. plus 1 to VivioTech! I just got a Railo VPS setup for a client for a very reasonable fee-to-specs ratio (you can customize your VPS options quite a bit with VivioTech).

    Their support, thus far, has been excellent. I had a problem with my default domain on the VPS and sent a note off at 10 p.m. on a Sunday evening. I woke up Monday morning to a few messages from the VivioTech support team -- everything was fully taken care of. Quite a breath of fresh air, really.
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  8. Railo has been very reliable for me so far. This is the uptime on my VPS:

    myrvps01:~# uptime
    17:21:39 up 97 days, 1:27, 1 user, load average: 0.31, 0.14, 0.11

    That begin said I haven't had to reboot my CF9 VPS since I installed. ( it dons't do much though )

    root@cf9vps:~# uptime
    12:23:16 up 64 days, 21:22, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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  9. I've used gearhost.com for years and they're good on price and support
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  10. I'm using a windows vps from 1and1 running Railo and MySQL. The vps has never had any major problems especially after switching from CF to Railo. The customer service was fairly quick to respond the few times I've tried.
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  11. I'm also running Railo on Viviotech and I've been super happy with them. But my recommendation was Hostek because I thought that Paul was asking for "Cheap ColdFusion Hosting". So I thought by "cheap" he meant "shared" (although for VPS, Viviotech's plans are pretty cheap) and by "ColdFusion" I thought he meant Adobe CF.
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  12. In this instance I was actually referring to ColdFusion ( Adobe ) hosting. I did use Hostek when they had CF9 beta accounts and it worked very well however some features were disabled.
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  13. Maybe we should start a thread on Stackoverflow about this.
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  14. @Paul,
    there are some features that are understandably disabled on most shared CF hosts such as cfexecute and cfregistry. Although some go as far as disabling createObject() and cffile as well. I don't remeber Hostek being overly restrictive with features back when I used them. Do they disable features that are permitted by HostingAtoZ?
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  15. There pretty good with regards to blocking. I guess I'm just used to dedi servers where I can do what ever I want :)
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  16. I had pretty good luck with Hostek but I just switched to a Viviotech VPS and its been rock solid
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  17. Linode.

    Used to make use of datacenter in the US, but they've just opened a London based datacenter, so latency from the Netherlands is really minimal. Moved all of our servers to the UK.

    Otherwise Webstekker is good in the Netherlands.
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  18. I have to say that Hosting A to Z is fast on their support response but I have to use way too much of it. My site was down a lot and then they had a problem while upgrading to CF9 (without telling me they were doing so) and I had to change some of my code to get it to work but this caused a fault that caused their server to crash so they shut me down without letting me work out the bug.
    Goes to show you get what you pay for. You would be better off paying extra for a better host. I'm thinking I'll just go with a VPS so nobody else disturbs my site. I think Hosting A to Z is just packing too many sites on each server causing them to crash a lot.
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