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GoDaddy.com to stop hosting ColdFusion websites.
by Cheap Web Hosts - 09/01/2011
It hasn't always been easy to find a ColdFusion web host, especially if looking for a cheap alternative pricing. When looking for a ColdFusion web host (not for Cheap-Web-Hosts.net but rather for another site) I was actually surprised to see GoDaddy.com offering ColdFusion hosting. GoDaddy.com usually prefers to do simple things in bulk offering competitive prices and "just enough service" to keep things going.

Apparently it now turns out that accommodating ColdFusion on their web servers is just too much for them. Here's an email letter I got from them just about an hour ago:


Dear *********,

After careful consideration, we have decided to discontinue support for ColdFusion®. The product will officially remain available to Go Daddy customers for three months, until November 29, 2011. After that date, ColdFusion websites hosted by Go Daddy will not work.

We will not be removing customer content from the system — your files will remain safely in our hosting datacenter. Because your current hosting account offers additional languages (PHP on Linux and Windows plans, and .NET on Windows plans), we hope you will find an alternative to your current ColdFusion implementation. Additionally, Deluxe and Ultimate plans offer Ruby, Perl and Python as language options.

Should you decide to move your files, please review the following help articles: Moving Directories Using the FTP File Manager and Using the File Manager to Move Files Between Directories.

If you have further questions or concerns, contact our customer service department at 480-505-8877.

Thanks for being a Go Daddy customer.

Bob Parsons
CEO and Founder
GoDaddy.com


Oh well, I guess I will have to transfer my ColdFusion site elsewhere. I've actually been meaning to do it for some time now since it's been a pain using tag on their site, but spending only a few bucks a month for ColdFusion at GoDaddy.com has made me procrastinate when it came to transferring to an alternate host.

Some alternate ColdFusion hosts are HostMySite.com, Hostek.com, DailyRazor.com. Other alternatives include ColdFusion VPS hosting which is a consideration if you are hosting multiple ColdFusion websites. KickAssVPS.com is one such option.

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