There's anew CF podcast in town at cfconversations.com. The first episode features a roundtable discussion between Rick Mason, Adam Haskell, Aaron West, and Jeff Coughlin. You can subscribe to it via iTunes here.

By now you should know that it's best practice to keep debugging turned off on production servers. Even when debugging is restricted by IP, ColdFusion busily goes about collecting debugging information for every page request, even though it's not displayed on the screen. All this extra activity tends to slow down the server a bit, particularly if you have "Report Execution Times" selected. Under load, having debugging turned on can have a serious impact on performance.

It was interesting to see a recent post on Joel Spolsky's blog explaining that a recent service outage in their hosting environment was caused by accidentally setting their switch to auto-sense network speed. In the post, he acknowledges that they do normally set the network speeds manually and turn off autonegotiate but that one switch had slipped through the cracks.