Server meeting between Wayne, John, and I. Going over a number of different topics. We talked about special websites that branch off of the main root or master branch. Ideally, if they are needed, we'll put them under public from now on. We decided that we may make a retired code repo (code repository) for things that are no longer in use or that are old. That was Wayne's idea and I think that it is awesome. I tend to just leave things where they are and work around them. He is trying to streamline things and help to standardize where possible.

Wayne is making big steps on the conversion between Application.cfm and Application.cfc's (overarching application and security structure of the main application pieces). Things are going well and he is ready to push them up to the dev server for testing. That is awesome. That project is a prep step for bigger corp-wide settings projects and simplifying some of the settings. We have two tables that are really big, and both of them hold settings. We need to change the format so that we are prepped for more growth in those areas.

We spent some time talking about the cost of storing content and files off of the main data servers. That is one of the pieces that is holding us up from clustering servers. Anyways, we are looking in to it and starting to chip away at that project as well. The goal would be to get all of the content in one place (photos, images, content, media, files, temp uploads, etc.) That one place may be a variable (change it per corporation or per server box or per cluster) but a special spot where all of the extra files that are not part of the master code branch go. Currently, they are stored on the data boxes in special folders. They, other files, are stored on the content server. This little project came up because we are having to up the storage on the content server. Lots of companies are using it. Eventually, we may have multiple content servers and be able to dynamically assign them. Good stuff.

Some of the other topics for discussion were dealing with the datasource project (smaller databases per corp or per solar system - linked companies). Timezones on the servers and making them all the same. We also spent some time looking into possible cost savings by switching from Adobe ColdFusion to Lucee (free and open source cfml - still ColdFusion but a different engine). If we were to switch, it would save us thousands and thousands year over year. Worth checking out.