Separate Web and DB servers

Howdy,

Back in the olden days of Allaire and Macromedia, most of
the text I 
read on web site architecture with Coldfusion mandated
separate Web and 
DB servers.

Do you feel that is still the case, or have things changed?
My sense is 
that both CF and DBs like MySQL and SQL Server are still
pretty decent 
memory hogs, especially if you are doing a lot of template
and query 
caching, and carry a lot of data around in the SESSION and
APPLICATION 
scopes.

But I'd be interested in anyone else's thoughts.

Thanks very much.

-MOM


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Mark,

>From my experience I would suggest still splitting up
the DB and application
servers for production environments. Although with the
popularity of
virtualization these days you don't have to have physically
separate
machines but just use separate virtual machines to run each
server. The same
issues that are documented on the web for the older versions
of CF still
apply to the newest version. I prefer separate environments
for each server
simple from a maintenance standpoint, debugging is a whole
lot simpler.

Just an FYI though, I've recently started reading a book
called Release It!
Design and Deply Production-Ready Software by Nygard
(Pragmatic Programmers)
and it gives some tremendous insight on production
environments and patterns
which you may find helpful considering your question.

HTH.

Best Regards,
Donnie

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Mark Modig <momoutofchaos.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> Back in the olden days of Allaire and Macromedia, most
of the text I
> read on web site architecture with Coldfusion mandated
separate Web and
> DB servers.
>
> Do you feel that is still the case, or have things
changed? My sense is
> that both CF and DBs like MySQL and SQL Server are
still pretty decent
> memory hogs, especially if you are doing a lot of
template and query
> caching, and carry a lot of data around in the SESSION
and APPLICATION
> scopes.
>
> But I'd be interested in anyone else's thoughts.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> -MOM
>
>
> 

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