Matthew Williams
Founder Geodesic GraFX
www.geodesicgrafx.com
Steve Chance
Co-Founder Meteorsite
www.meteorsite.com
In 2008, Geodesic GraFX teamed up with Meteorsite.com to offer highly robust and scalable web applications from start to finish. Both Matthew Williams and Steve Chance of Meteorsite.com have been working with CFML since 2001.
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Customers can expect 24x7 hosting, support and monitoring, off site backups, and customer service with a white glove treatment. We don't oversell our hosting services, and offer solutions for every budget. In August 2009, Geodesic GraFX started providing customers a means to cut some of their overhead by offering Railo hosting solutions. We currently have servers located on the US East Coast, and the Euro zone, and are open to other locales to fit customers needs. Presently, they host 38 different sites across 3 servers, all of them using Railo for their application engine.
We were extremely pleased to see Railo move to an open source model. Most of the tools we use for creating and maintaining sites are open source, and it allows us to offer more competitive pricing. We’ve been working with Railo since it moved to the open source model. The initial start with Railo was bumpy as one might expect moving to a new technology, but only for those sites using the FarCry framework. However, Team Railo and Team Daemon worked together to address many of those early issues. The community support is bar none, and it's great to see the founders of Railo involved in day to day discussions.
We presently run Railo 3.3.0.027 RC on our production and local test servers. We really find the separation of web contexts to be an outstanding feature of Railo. The speed of execution for requests has also made a difference for our team and clients. We have a mixture of frameworks included for our projects. We have several "home built" sites, and several using the FarCry framework. The performance of the FarCry framework on Railo is now seamless and fluid.
Since we're a ColdFusion shop and intend to stay that way for as long as CFML is around, we're planning to stay with Railo. Railo/CFML is our primary business. We're presently using Resin for our J2EE server, but have plans to migrate to Tomcat in the near future. Our wishlist would include having some of the features currently offered by FusionReactor or SeeFusion be part of the standard Railo engine.
The advice we would give is to learn how to install and configure J2EE servers. Adobe® ColdFusion™ shields you from this, but it's extremely beneficial to get into the underpinning of the technology driving your sites.