Coldfusion Hosting

With a host of new features, dramatically improved performance and scalability, and easier integration with enterprise IT environments, Adobe ColdFusion 8 is a must-have release for ColdFusion developers.

New in ColdFusion 8

Server Monitor

See exactly what’s happening in your application to help identify bottlenecks and tune the server for better performance. ColdFusion 8 also features a Multiserver Monitor to gain insight on all servers in a cluster.

PDF features

ColdFusion 8 applications can dynamically generate and interact with PDF documents and forms for a printable, portable way to intelligently capture and share information.

Ajax features

ColdFusion 8 can easily provide data to existing Ajax applications and frameworks. You can use simple tags to access a large library of prebuilt Ajax user interface components such as rich text editors, data grids, tree controls, tab navigators, and more.

.NET integration

With ColdFusion 8, you can specify any .NET object — either local or remote — and use it in your ColdFusion application, just like any Java™ or other object resource.

Microsoft Exchange Server integration

Programmatically interact with a Microsoft Exchange server to perform common tasks such as reading, creating, and modifying calendar events, contacts, tasks, and e-mail.

Interactive debugger

ColdFusion 8 introduces an Eclipseâ„¢ plug-in debugger. Use it to set breakpoints, watch variables, and step through code, making it easier to debug all your application code.

Even if most of the websites are using PHP, ASP.NET, or JSP pages, there is still a quite big market for alternative solutions. Among these there is Adobe ColdFusion, an application server and software development framework used in particular for development of dynamic web sites. If you plan on having any kinds of ColdFusion pages or applications built into your site then it will be important for you to decide on what kind of hosting you’ll be getting because you’ll need ColdFusion hosting as part of your package. There are many kinds of such hosting, some without many frills or options, and others with powerful control panels (such as efree2net.com) so you have full control over how your ColdFusion web hosting treats your code. Also keep in mind that various hosts may be working with older versions of the software, so if you specifically need ColdFusion MX hosting definitely keep that in mind.

If you have any feedback about other good ColdFusion hosting, don’t hesitate to post your comment here.

ColdFusion hosting (shared) certainly isn’t as ubiquitous as say PHP, but there are some well known hosting providers that you can use particuarly for smaller clients on a budget.

Some of the more popular ones are efree2net.com and Hosttone.com. Last week some colleagues turned me on to efree2net.com who are the cheapest I’ve ever seen, with prices as low as USD$25.00 a year (not a month…a year!). That particular plan includes free domain registration and reasonable traffic.

As usual there are concerns when putting your site on a shared host, performance probably being at the top of the list. Other concerns may be things like:

• Amount of RAM
• CPU
• Other clients/applications running (and typing up resources)
• Network speeds
• Database connectivity and speeds
• Disaster Recovery
• Stats package
• etc al

efree2net.com run Intel Xeon’s with 2.8 to 3.2 CPU’s with 2-4GB of RAM, boast 99.9% uptime and 24 x 7 x 365 customer support. Not too bad for the price. Oh and by the way, they run ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise.

What is BlogCFM?

BlogCFM is a totally free, open-source blog application for Coldfusion and Bluedragon. BlogCFM supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server databases.

Features

• Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Access, SQL Server, and Oracle
• Creates search-engine friendly files for each entry, and for monthly archives
• Searchable
• HTML editor for creating blot entries (FCKeditor included, also works with TinyMCE)
• Back-end file manager for uploading images and other files to your blog (CFFM).
• Optional CAPTCHA authentication to help prevent bots from registering and/or posting comments.
• Blog administrator can optionally require users to register before commenting.
• Optional, per-user global entry notification helps bring visitors back when new entries are added to your blog.
• Optional, per-user per entry comment subscriptions notify users when new comments are added to an entry to which they are subscribed.
• Photo Blog Capability
  • Attach a photo album to a blog entry
  • Web-based administration to add, remove, and resize photo album images
• RSS 1.0 Feeds – entire blog, per category, and keyword feeds.
• Ping blog aggregators on update.
• and more!

Example / Demo

Demo BlogCFM Blog user: blogcfm, password: adminYou can also view a fully populated example at the author’s blog.

Downloads

Download the latest version here.The current version is 1.14. View the CHANGELOG.

Account Features:

• 2 GB of Disk Space
• Free One Domain Registration (.com, .net, .org, .info and .biz only)
• 2 FTP Accounts, 24 / 7 FTP Access
• 1 top-level domains (www.your_domain.com and your_domain.com)
• 20 Domain aliases
• Unlimited sub-domains (sub.your_domain.com)
• No Setup Fee
• 20 GB data transfer per month
• Control Panel
• Web Based Statistics
• Protected Directories
• Custom Error Pages
• Free SiteBuilder
• 1 Platinum Image Hosting account (worth $18.00 per year)
• Access to raw log files

Scripting Features:

• Windows 2003 Servers with Microsoft IIS 6.0
• Active Server Pages (.ASP)
• ColdFusion MX 7.0 (.CFM)
• PHP4 (.PHP)
• CGI / ActivePerl 5 (.CGI .PL)
• MS FrontPage 2002 Extensions
• Server Side Includes (SSI)
• JavaScripts
• CGI-BIN
• Custom MIME type
• ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0
• Preinstalled ASP Components
• Multimedia Support: Flash, Shockwave, Real Media http streaming and Windows Media http streaming

Database Access:

• Unlimited ODBC Connections, MS Access
• 20 MySQL databases
• PHPMyAdmin tool
• DSN less connection

E-mail Features:

• Unlimited POP3 Accounts
• Unlimited Auto Responders
• Unlimited Forwarders
• Unlimited Mailing Lists
• Access to web based e-mail
• Mail Catch All
• Anti SPAM filetering
• Anti virus filtering

Guarantee:

• 30-day money back
• 99.9% network uptime
• 99.5% server uptime

Free Domain Hosting Features.

Free One Domain Registration
www.yourname.com, .net, .info, .biz, .org or .us
100MB of web space (www, database, mail and log files)
1 ODBC Connection
1 FTP Accounts
24 / 7 FTP Access
2 Sub-level domains
No Setup Fee
10 GB data transfer per month
10 Email Accounts
Aliases, Auto-Responders and mailing list
Web Based Email Access
Active Server Pages (.ASP)
ColdFusion MX 7 (.CFM)
PHP4 / Zend (.PHP)
ASP.NET
Your own CGI-BIN / Perl 5 (.CGI .PL)
Server Side Includes (SSI)
Control Panel
MS Access database
One Forum
Statistics Report
Free SwSoft SiteBuilder (worth 29.00 per year)
Free One Blog (b2evolution, Nucleus, pMachine Free, WordPress)
Free One CMS (Drupal, Mambo, PHP-Nuke, phpWCMS, phpWebSite, Post-Nuke, Siteframe, TYPO3, Xoops)
Free One Photo Gallery (4Images Gallery, Coppermine Photo Gallery, Gallery)

efree2net.com

What is ColdFusion Hosting?
ColdFusion, originally developed by Allaire (then Macromedia and then ADOBE) is a suite of products that are designed to help build web pages. ColdFusion is a server scripting language similar to PHP, CGI, or ASP. It is used to create dynamic web pages. Like PHP, CGI and ASP, ColdFusion, it enables web developers to build and deploy dynamic web sites such as content publishing systems, self-service applications, e-commerce sites and more. It is an easy-to-learn tag-based language that has connectivity to enterprise level data and powerful built-in search and charting capabilities.

ColdFusion enables web developers to easily build and deploy dynamic web sites, content publishing systems, self-service applications, e-commerce sites and more. ColdFusion Server is the application that processes the CFML code. CFML is the acronym for ColdFusion Markup Language and is an extension of HTML and XML. This makes it a powerful yet easy to use language.

ColdFusion makes it easy to build a web site that interacts with your users to create rich web sites that have database capabilities. 
What are the benefits of ColdFusion Hosting?
ColdFusion is server side technology meaning it processed by the web server. It works well with Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks and Freehand. ColdFusion allows you to build and deploy powerful web services with less training time and fewer lines of code than ASP, PHP or JSP. 
Which ColdFusion tags and functions have been restricted or disabled?
ColdFusion has several tags that should be disabled in a shared hosting environment. eFree2net.com has disabled CFDIRECTORY, CFEXECUTE and CFREGISTRY. eFree2net.com can enable CFDIRECTORY when you request.