This JVM bug seems to be getting some high-level attention in the IT press so I thought I’d lay out the issue where CF is concerned: History The bug is in the JVM (it has been since ~2001) and so ColdFusion running on Sun JVMs are affected. Someone out there has obviously made the link [...]

Christmas is still a busy time on the web. With new computers for Christmas and days off work there’s plenty of time for Internet users to be out there surfing your site. But what if your site is down? Perhaps then it’s not such a Happy Christmas! Through a combination of factors – including our [...]

We consult with a lot of different types of company. Sometimes there’s a lot of security process to deal with. This is great when you’re trying to stop un-authorized access but can sometimes hamper the speed of response an outside agency can give. In one such incident we were trying to identify the IP address [...]

FusionReactor – the leading ColdFusion server monitoring software – has a nifty Crash Protection feature allowing it to abort requests that take too long. This works in a similar way to the ColdFusion server page timeouts but at a lower level allowing FusionReactor to stop requests under many more circumstances. FusionReactor also gives you the [...]