That's right -- I did it. I made the move to Railo. My original plan was to wait for the open source version 3.1 to be released. But after playing with Railo 3 for a while and testing my sites on my local development box, I've been nothing but impressed with its performance and how my CF8 sites "just work" on Railo. So I called up my host, Viviotech, set up a new Linux VPS, installed Railo 3 (Community Edition), migrated the sites from my former CF8-powered VPS (which include this blog and a couple of other sites) and shut that one down.
What can I say? Gert Franz, Michael Streit and co have done an amazing job with Railo. I upgraded my blog to the latest version of Mango, which is Railo-compatible, and my ColdBox sites are just screaming along. And I definitely can't complain about the fact that my hosting costs have been reduced to less than half of what they used to be. Also, any newcomers to Railo should join the Railo_Talk group on Yahoo Railo Google Group. The Railo guys are very responsive in helping people out.
Many thanks to Gert and Co. I'm really looking forward to Railo 3.1!
Dec 30, 2008 at 10:46 AM Nice. I am in the process of moving all my personal stuff to Railo aswell. Like you the transition has been going smoothly and I look forward to 3.1.
Jul 30, 2009 at 8:02 AM How is the Railo VPS going? We'd be moving that way ourselves if it weren't for the fact Railo is missing Flash Remoting :(
Jul 30, 2009 at 8:10 AM @Joanna H. Actually FlashRemoting is now included as part of Railo its works well and they are continuing to improve it each release I have a demo here: http://tr.im/uJfP
Jul 30, 2009 at 6:55 PM It's going great, Joanna! I don't use Flash Remoting, so I didn't miss it. But as Paul pointed out, Railo now has Flash Remoting, which is great because I'd like to get into some Flex soon.
Also, the hosting company I use, Viviotech, is now offering VPS accounts with Railo 3.1 pre-installed! So you don't event have to worry about installing it yourself anymore. They are offering free 7-day trials as a promotion, so check it out!
http://www.viviotech.net