Is anyone here hosting ContentBox on hostek? Kev McCabe was on Twitter saying his page counts (which run in a thread) were not working. I thought perhaps someone here had run into that.
Thanks!
~Brad
I have some test code for threads, and for whatever reason it works locally on MAC and not on HOSTEK Windows CF10 Shared Hosting
I’ve created the attached test file and it works locally on my CF10 Updater 13
But not on the hostek account
http://cfml-craftsmanship.com/thread.cfm?reset
Well none of the threads happen, I have a ticket open with their support and will feedback.
thread.cfm (737 Bytes)
Can you put a try/catch in the thread and see if it’s throwing some error that’s being lost? Of course, you’ll have to persist the error somewhere you can access after the thread is finished. Or actually, you may just be able to join back to the thread and see its status.
Thanks!
~Brad
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No luck 
nothing coming out I’ll see what their support people say
So it’s basically like the thread just never fires?
Too bad you can’t see their server monitor to look at the running cfthreads. I wonder if there server has a large number of long-running cfthreads that are hung and preventing more from executing. It might be worth mentioning to them to check the cfmonitor and also see what their maximum cfthread limit is. This is one of the reasons I prefer VPS hosting over shared hosting 
Thanks!
~Brad
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I outputted the thread info and there seems to be a permission issue that is getting hidden by the security sandbox, which I’ve tried to replicate locally and can’t more info for support to resolve that’s what thet are paid for.
Hi Brad, I have a client on Hostek, I’ll. check tonight
Yea it’s a big issue as also the caching is done via cfthread. So caches could not get cleaned potentially as well.
Could this also be why ContentBox is very slow on Hostek. Huge difference on Amazon
I would suspect it would.
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For anyone using Hostek, I’d like to see the cache debug panel to see how many items are in it. If the reaping isn’t running, it could grow unbounded which would slowly drag stuff down.
Thanks!
~Brad
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Yes, I raised a ticket with Luis about this. The problem is because they use threads, if you look in the hostek logs you will see a heap of permission denied in there.
ContentBox is slow because of this
I have been down this route many times in here.
First thing you need to do, is go to your lohs in your control panel and look for permission errors, they will all be java IO permission and you need to tell hostek to fix it. They will or at least did for me.
But as for it being slow on Hostek, it is not just hostek.
The problem is that all the Criteria Building in ColdFusion, is slow as shit. I have raised a ticket about this to Adobe as has Hostek and Adobe are supposed to be looking into it.
I can stress enough that this
Is a real and serious issue with ColdFusion and Criteria Building.
Yep.
https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/CONTENTBOX-356
In your own ticket base mind you Brad.
I know you like to post that blog article here on a regular basis Andrew, but I spent two hours one day re-creating your exact code and found the performance to be completely different than your reported (As I reported in your comment section). Just because you saw a particular behavior on your specific servers doesn’t mean it applies to everyone as there could be many factors at play.
Thanks!
~Brad
ColdBox Platform Evangelist
Ortus Solutions, Corp
E-mail: brad@coldbox.org
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Andrew, we haven’t heard of anyone other than you who’s been able to reproduce your performance issues. On that note, I would encourage anyone running Adobe CF to give Andrew’s test code a run and report what you see.
Thanks!
~Brad
ColdBox Platform Evangelist
Ortus Solutions, Corp
E-mail: brad@coldbox.org
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I realise that Brad, but you have to understand that I can get it to happen on every server I have deployed ContentBox too.
And the more entries the slower it gets, that is what the blog post also shows.