Comments on: Shared ColdFusion Hosting… who do you use?

By: Adam Thor

Adam Thor — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:35:19 +0000

I’ve been using http://ultimahosts.net/Windows/VPS/ Windows 2008 VPS for some time. They don’t offer shared CF but it can easily be loaded on the VPS. Uptime and performance outstanding.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:11:35 +0000

We have using Coldfusion Hosting from efree2net.com more than 5 years.
Their Coldfusion services are great, support sandbox security with cffile and cfdirectory.

By: Vickey

Vickey — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:11:20 +0000

Ah! I have totally different experience with hostingatoz.com what Tuttle is having with them. I am on their Nile Server and it is working fine for me. I have not seen any noticeable issues except about 3 months ago where there were some hardware issues (as they mentioned in announcement). Apart from this I am really happy with them.

By: Maverick

Maverick — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:28:46 +0000

I would stay away from KickAssVPS. I’ve been with them since April 2008. I signed up on their site on the 6th (a Sunday) and never heard anything from them (not even an auto-reply), on the 10th I finally got a response saying my VPS is ready. I logged in and they did not setup the extra IP I requested or Plesk (which I paid extra for).

They finally setup the second IP (which I needed for SSL on two different sites) and set up the wrong Plesk license on Monday the 14th.

The service has been inaccessible several times throughout the time I’ve been with them, and I have three e-mails from them for the few times they actually announce a planned outage or maintenance (which is usually just 1-2 hours notice).

I am currently moving to NeoSpire because I have heard great things about them from my friend at TOKYOPOP. They DO have shared Cold Fusion, but it looks like their focus is on dedicated servers.

By: J.J. Merrick

J.J. Merrick — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:58:22 +0000

Thank you for all your replies, I really appreciate it. I will give the information on to the client!

By: Aaron West

Aaron West — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:35:59 +0000

Like so many others here, I’ve had a miserable time with HostMySite. My experience was exactly like @jeffs. Excellent customer service reps that were always willing to resolve my issues. I struggled for over a year with uptime issues and wound up having my site moved 3 different times to “better” servers. The results have always been the same, lots of downtime. HMS has the best of intentions, but that doesn’t amount to much.

I still have one site to move off of HMS and over to one of my VPS instances at VivioTech or Linode (linode.com). I’ve been extremely happy with both VivioTech and Linode (run by a friend of mine) and have had great customer support as well as optimal uptime.

By: Richard Davies

Richard Davies — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:12:31 +0000

Stay away from DailyRazor.com! They accidentally deleted my account… web site was offline for almsot a month. They wouldn’t refund me any money. Refused to allow me to cancel my account. Also tried to auto-renew my account after I’d requested it to be cancelled.

By: Sebastiaan

Sebastiaan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:07:20 +0000

We (Onlinebase.nl) offer our customers shared CF-hosting on Webstekker (webstekker.nl) servers. They have excellent, professional support and tend to be quick solving issues. Uptime is really good and they’ve even installed the latest version of CF 8.0.1 for me when asked – now that’s service! So this is also an option for all you US-citizens.

By: Mary Jo

Mary Jo — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:04:28 +0000

My experience with HMS has been very similar…great support, but the sites having lots of problems. Fairly similar experience with Crystaltech. I’ve tried both Viviotech and AHPHosting but just not happy with some of the problems with their hosting and uptime. So recently I too have been starting to use KickAssVPS.com for some VPS servers and find they have good uptime and really excellent support. I’m running one customer on Railo now and we’re thrilled with the performance we are getting, but their prices for CF hosting are quite competitive as well.

By: Jonathan Hall

Jonathan Hall — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:05:06 +0000

I used to use HMS for both PHP & CF Hosting, I moved off of HMS because each of their PHP servers were configured slightly different and caused a major headache from one client to another. Their support was top notch, but I felt I had to call them for every client due to the server differences.

I now use http://www.rapidvps.com for my servers and so far I absolutely love it, they don’t provide any CF packages, but its VPS so I install my own CFML engine of choice.