Should I keep my online Coldfusion Server?

Question

I haven't settled on the career that I'll pursue after completing my education. I have a web server that I've been maintaining to eventually post an interactive resume which has the current ability to serve ASP, PHP / mySQL, and Coldfusion (albeit a little out of date). Is Coldfusion (6.1) still being used by businesses or have they migrated to PHP, ASP, and newer technologies?

Currently, I'm not "fluent" in Coldfusion; but, I can carry on a simple conversation in ASP and "speak" PHP / mySQL like a "native".

My alternative is to change my Server type to one that supports more up to date ASP and MySQL; but, no Coldfusion.

Additional Details

First of all, this is on a server I'm "renting" from a provider, not one I'm personally serving.

Secondly, I'm trying to find out what the business community is using. Does knowledge of Coldfusion aid in becoming employed as a web designer remain an asset or has CF gone the way of COBOL and Fortran?

Answer 1

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ColdFusion is definitely still in use - and among some major players [ http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion… ]. Secondly, Adobe is working on CF 9 which has some remarkable qualities. However, more jobs as far as website develoment itself will be found in ASP and PHP (and some in Ruby on Rails). Personally I do both CF and PHP. I get paid as a CF developer - and it is a much higher pay that any other PHP job I've had simply because there aren't many who will or do write in CF (although it is the easiest and fastest of the three). With that said, keep your server, but learn the other languages as well. There is definitely a market in CF, but it is hard to find.

Answer 2

You did not say which OS, I assume you were on Coldfusion/Windows by the description. I gave up on web servers on Windows a couple of years ago and went to a Linux server.

There are a lot of "howto" articles on how to set up a server with all those items (except coldfusion). However, I'm not sure about ASP
Checkout:

http://www.howtoforge.com/

I used the following to set up my Ubuntu server, and have mySQL and php all running:
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server…

Article about ASP on Ubuntu (Debian):
http://www.goitexpert.com/entry.cfm?entr…

Hope that helps a bit, sorry I can't help much more on ASP