ColdFusion 2025 Done Right
Practical guides, battle-tested frameworks, and real metrics from 20+ years of production experience. Everything you need to deploy, secure, and optimize ColdFusion.
What You'll Find Here
Security Frameworks
Our Security Hardening Framework gives you a systematic approach to locking down ColdFusion—plus an interactive assessment tool to check your work
Performance Tuning
JVM settings, thread pools, caching, database connections—the stuff that actually makes ColdFusion fast when you configure it properly
Step-by-Step Guides
Walk through installation, hardening, tuning, and containerization with guides that tell you what to do and why it matters
Start the Guide →Decision Making
Not sure if ColdFusion is right for your project? We've got TCO calculators, platform comparisons, and honest migration guidance
AI-Powered Analysis
Point our AI tools at your code to spot security issues, identify performance bottlenecks, and plan migrations
Interactive Tools
Compare hosting providers, size your infrastructure, and assess your security posture with calculators that do the math for you
Compare Hosting →Performance Data
Real benchmarks and case studies with actual numbers—not marketing claims, but measured results from production systems
See Benchmarks →Administrator Reference
Every screen, every setting, every option in the ColdFusion Administrator—documented with context on what actually matters
Browse Admin Guide →How We Think About ColdFusion
Lock It Down First
Start secure, then selectively enable what you need. It's easier to open a door than to close one that's been left open for years.
Measure Before You Optimize
Turn on monitoring before you change anything. Hunches are nice; data is better. Every recommendation here comes with a way to verify it worked.
Battle-Tested Guidance
Everything on this site has been tested in production environments. We've run into the edge cases so you don't have to.
Who's Behind This
CFGuide is built by Convective, an Adobe Solution Partner with 20+ years of ColdFusion experience. We've debugged more ColdFusion installations than we can count, and this site is our way of sharing what we've learned. If you need hands-on help, that's what we do.
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