If you haven’t checked out the recently launched FusionReactor 5 (www.fusion-reactor.com) you are in for a nice surprise with many new and improved features compared with earlier versions of the ColdFusion server monitor. At TeraTech we like using it for real-time server monitoring, to pinpoint issues and protect against server crashes. Some of FR5’s […]
Preventing and diagnosing ColdFusion server crashes and slow downs Thursday 11/29/12 3pm EST
Are your ColdFusion applications running slow or even crashing the server? Are you concerned about what increasing load will do the the reliability of your application? Do you want to protect your organizations reputation for quality on the web? Then join us for this free webinar with Intergral’s David Stockton and learn how to keep […]
How to cure slow/crashing ColdFusion servers – Webinar notes
A few weeks ago TeraTech’s ColdFusion server tuning guru Ajay Sathuluri gave a webinar on How to Cure Slow and Crashing ColdFusion servers. He looked at how to diagnose problems and some common ways to heal a sick ColdFusion server. He also discussed what tools you can use to prevent problems from occurring. If you […]
Future Webinar Topics (How to cure a slow or crashing ColdFusion server)
We had overwhelming interesting this week’s webinar on How to Cure a Slow or Crashing ColdFusion server with over 200 people registering. Many attendees asked if we could do future webinars in more detail on some of the following topics Staging environment best practices JVM settings, memory configuration Garbage collection Monitoring tools Load testing we […]
CFUnited load testing session went well.
My CFUnited presentation on “Dynamic Load Testing with Webserver Stress Tool” went well. Thanks to everyone for the good feedback. My presentation, source, and testing scripts will be posted on the CFUnited site soon after the conference. Congrats to the 3 raffle winners: Steven Focht (Webserver Stress Tool 7), Abram Adams (WST), Bryan Modders (FusionReactor). […]
Presenting at CFUnited on load testing
CFUnited is next week! I’ll be presenting on Wednesday on “Dynamic Load Testing with Webserver Stress Tool“. I’ll be covering Basic, parameterized, and scripted load testing. It’s a fairly inexpensive tool, but can do some powerful testing. This week I also found out I’ll be able to raffle 3 software licenses: 2 licenses for Paessler […]
Clustering and fail over for CF and SQL Server
We were recently working on a site that was growing rapiding in traffic. How should it be clustered and why? In putting together this recommendation we took into account the anticipated increase in traffic volumes and also are striving to avoid too much distribution of assets across a network. By avoiding the use of Network […]
When should you use a SAN?
I was talking with TeraTech’s server tuning consultant Mike Brunt about servers and SANs (Storage Area Networks). When should you use a SAN? 1/ As a SAN systems are typically simply a large number of hard-drives, optical drives etc in an enclosure, it is very easy to add capacity quickly as needed as opposed to […]
ColdFusion stability, metrics, logs and garbage collection
I was talking with TeraTech’s server tuning consultant Mike Brunt about ColdFusion tuning and clustering which we did for a client to improve stability and performance. I thought others might be interested in what we did with server metrics, threads, logs and garbage collection in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). We edited two files, as […]
ColdFusion Cluster Server Tuning training and consulting
TeraTech is helping a large organization in the central US learn how to tune their cluster of ColdFusion servers. We are flying to their location to analyze their current server issues so that the training will be customized to their exact set up and issues. On clustering we will examine CF8 clustering options – pros […]
