Posted by Chris Shiflett on 07/10/05 05:13

Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> You've insinuated several times that PHP is not 'scalable to an
> enterprise level'. Could you perhaps explain what you mean by this?

Anyone who is trying to argue that ColdFusion is easier to scale than
PHP (both can be made to) hasn't had to handle significant traffic.

I have experience trying to scale ColdFusion (this was a job years ago
for the USPS), and it's not easy once you pass a certain threshhold. I
don't think it was a lack of expertise either - I had some of the top
consultants from Allaire trying to solve the problem, including the
author of ClusterCATS.

Application servers are nice, but I prefer the minimalistic "shared
nothing" approach that PHP takes.

Chris

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Chris Shiflett
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