Your ColdFusion site is crawling. Pages take seconds to render. The DOS attacks from China are taking you down daily. Your boss is crawling up your backside, because clients are running away. And... you're still running ColdFusion 5 and MySQL 3.
Why are you complaining again? Wake Up!
Your problem isn't your platform. It's...your platform. Why would you think that you have to upgrade your desktop software, but not your web platform? Every new iteration of an Operating System becomes (hopefully) a little more performant and a little more secure and (generally) has a few more bells and whistles. So why are you still running IIS on Windows NT?
You want things to get better? Want the boss to stop breathing down your neck? Step 1: Get Current. If you aren't up-to-date, your app will show it's age. We can get wrinkled and put on weight with age, why wouldn't your site?
Give your site a Lifestyle Lift. Get a modern OS, a modern web server, a modern database server, and a modern app server. (And, if you're that far out of date, you probably need some modern equipment too.) No budget for all of this? Consider a hosted VM instance(s), where the host handles the software licensing.
The language has changed/improved, a lot, in the past decade+. So has the server. You can't take advantage of any of these enhancements if your infrastructure is archaic.
Now, all of this being said, you'll want to test your code on a local architecture of the same make up. Chances are that there are minor code changes that you will have to make just to get up and running on "New Stuff". Set yourself up on a local VM, with all the same upgrades (OS, web server, db, etc) and thoroughly test your application. Having trouble? It's worth the time to test and figure it out (or hire a good consultant).
This article is the second in a series of articles on bringing life back to your legacy ColdFusion applications. Follow along in the Legacy Code category.
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