Today WebHostingWatch.com released an artcle describing ColdFusion hosting. http://www.webhostingwatch.info/webhost-reviews/understanding-coldfusion-web-hosting/

I found it to be inaccurate at best and confusion since it is riddled with bad grammar (and I thought I was dyslexic) and half or mis-information about ColdFusion.  I tried to leave a polite comment explaining ColdFusion, CFML, the other CFML engines and the various types of CFML hosting.  Either the comment form is redirected to dev>null or they just are not moderating or allowing comments.  So I chose to repost my comments here because the fact is people need to understand what ColdFusion and CFML are and how they will benefit their websites and businesses.

So this is the comment I posted:

You are so misinformed it's hard to know where to start.

1. ColdFusion was introduced in 1995 by Allaire and predates most server side web languages such as java, asp, php, ruby and more.

2. ColdFusion now typically refers to the ColdFusion server engine sold by Adobe.  CFML is the language that is used to interact with a particular CFML processing engine.

3. There are three major CFML processing engines, ColdFusion Server, BlueDragon Server and Ralio Server. The later two have commercial and free open source versions.

4. True, CFML interacts with databases. It does this very well. In fact better than most everything else. It also does SO much more.  Read about ColdFusion at Adobe.com and then read about the other versions at newatlanta.com and getrailo.com.

5. True, CFML does allow the integration of multiple languages such as SQL, java, HTML, javascript, CSS and more.  The point I want to make here is that ColdFusion and CFML predates many of these with notable exceptions such as HTML and SQL.

6. ColdFusion hosting is really this: A web hosting provider that offers a CFML processing server for you to use.  Typically a hosting provider these days will offer several free types of server side languages.  In the effort to maximize profits many leave out the commercial servers like Adobe ColdFusion.  However, increasing demand for a CFML processing server is changing this.  That and the availability of free open source CFML processing servers has increased the number of web hosting providers that offer a CFML processing server.

7. Since ColdFusion typically refers to Adobe's ColdFusion server, ColdFusion hosing typically means your paying for Adobe's ColdFusion server at your hosting provider.  There are two other types of hosting becoming more available and those are openBlueDragon hosting and Ralio hosting. In each case your paying for access to the type of CFML processing server the name is referring to.

I hope you correct your article base on this information and if you don't then at least your readers will have this to properly understand ColdFusion, CFML, and the various types of CFML processing engines and hosting options.

Thank you.