MySpace Running BlueDragon, not ColdFusion

Tuesday May 29, 2007 11:39 AM
Tags: ColdFusion
Word Count: 105

I am sure many of you know this and I may even posted an entry about this at one time but I felt the need to share it again. I picked this little tip up from Sean Corfield on forum posting. Someone was unsure what version of CF www.myspace.com was running. Sean pointed out that in fact they were not running CF but instead using BlueDragon. How can you find this information out? Just visit the link below and you will see the BlueDragon exception handler template.

http://myspace.com/Application.cfm

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#1 Posted By: Matt Graf Posted On: 5/29/07 1:00 PM
I think it used to be writing in ColdFusion but now it is running asp.net 2.0
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/03/25/...
#2 Posted By: Dan Vega Posted On: 5/29/07 1:13 PM |
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BlueDragon can serve asp.net pages as well. The exception handler template does not lie!
#3 Posted By: Christopher Wigginton Posted On: 5/29/07 1:13 PM
BlueDragon.NET, more information on Vince's Blog at http://blog.newatlanta.com/index.cfm?mode=entry&am...
#4 Posted By: Christopher Wigginton Posted On: 5/29/07 1:19 PM
Oh, as far as template not lying, depends if they customized the templates.

\JRun4\servers\cfusion\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\WEB-INF\exception\coldfusion\runtime
#5 Posted By: Gary Fenton Posted On: 5/29/07 3:30 PM
A programmer from myspace commented on the blog linked from an ealier comment here. He said that myspace has been configured to map fuseaction params to ASPX extensions. Effectively most of the .cfm links you see are 'redirected' to aspx pages so people who bookedmarked pages don't lose them. It's a shame they're moving away from cfml but I guess BlueDragon gave them an easy migration path what with its .NET ties. Vince from New Atlanta also commented that they couldn't have made the transition from CFMX to .NET without BlueDragon. So that's confirmed it really. Pitty as myspace was always a good site to tell clients about when they ask about coping with lots of traffic or if they question how credible it is to use CF these days. We need a new champion! Any suggestions?
#6 Posted By: Dan Posted On: 5/29/07 3:38 PM |
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Gary,
I have found the direct opposite and it is the reason this topic was brought up in the forums in the first place. That site used to run so slow (and still does) due to the combination of application design, load balancing & traffic and not because it was using ColdFusion. Most clients heard that sites name and went wow that site is slow I do not want to use cf. We all know that to be bs though!

A great resource for who is using cf is Ben Fortas blog. He has a whole category devoted to it.
http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/UsingCF
#7 Posted By: Michael Long Posted On: 5/29/07 5:45 PM
As I wrote in the following article, Macromedia should have done whatever it took to maintain MySpace as a "flagship" CF site. They didn't.

http://www.cfinternals.org/blog/2007/05/will_adobe...
#8 Posted By: Gary Fenton Posted On: 5/29/07 5:46 PM
Dan, fair comment, there is that angle too. It could also be looked at as how not to code a website that may suddenly explode with popularity and require rapid scaling. They couldn't have predicted their success - not that I feel sorry for them. ;-)
#9 Posted By: Dan Vega Posted On: 5/29/07 5:56 PM |
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Gary
Those guys sold it for like 450 million bucks, I feel sorry for nobody! haha


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