Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 3: Advanced Application Development

Chapter 57. Scaling with ColdFusion

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• The Importance of Scaling 41

• Scaling Considerations 42

• How to Write ColdFusion 8 Applications That Scale 50

• Keeping Web Site Servers in Sync 55

• Multiple ColdFusion 8 Instances 57

• Hardware vs. Software Load Balancing Options 60

• Scaling with ColdFusion 8 Load Balancing 63

• Hardware Load-Balancing Options 67

• Finishing Up 69

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In the first two chapters of this book, you learned about high availability and about monitoring system performance. In the two chapters following this one, you’ll learn about scaling with Java and managing session state in a cluster. Here in this chapter we’ll concentrate on what you need to know about scaling with ColdFusion 8.

We’ll cover scaling considerations, ...