ColdFusion hosting (shared) certainly isn’t as ubiquitous as say PHP, but there are some well known hosting providers that you can use particuarly for smaller clients on a budget.
Some of the more popular ones are Hostmysite and Crystal Tech. Last week some colleagues turned me on to Hosting A to Z who are the cheapest I’ve ever seen, with prices as low as USD$34.99 a year (not a month…a year!). That particular plan includes 1 MSSQL database, free setup fee and reasonable traffic. Only 500MB of disk space though which may be a problem for some sites.
As usual there are concerns when putting your site on a shared host, performance probably being at the top of the list. Other concerns may be things like:
- Amount of RAM
- CPU
- Other clients/applications running (and typing up resources)
- Network speeds
- Database connectivity and speeds
- Disaster Recovery
- Stats package
- etc al
hostingatoz run Intel Xeon’s with 2.8 to 3.2 CPU’s with 2-4GB of RAM, boast 99.9% uptime and 24 x 7 x 365 customer support. Not too bad for the price. Oh and by the way, they run ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise.
The only thing for me is that I’d never heard of them. In itself that certainly isn’t a reason not to try them, but I do know that a LOT of people use hostmysite and crystaltech and I’ve generally heard good things about them.
You can read more here. Happy hosting 
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mssql hosting
June 30th, 2007
I have just completed my 2nd year with http://www.hostingatoz.com . They are just amazing. Support is good and I have never seen any other host offering CF 7 MX at that prices.
Highly recommended for your personal and non-critical sites. I don’t have any huge site so I can’t tell you how good they are when it comes to high traffic sites.
Sumant
August 14th, 2007
Sounds good Sumant, I’ve actually had a site up on hostmysite for several months now.
They have great support and the price is good, my only complaint is that JRun seems to be restarted at LEAST 4-5 times per day.
This doesn’t make me happy
Michael Sharman
August 14th, 2007
You can also run you own box at http://www.slicehost.com
Luke
June 13th, 2008
Slice host is for Linux distros if you need windows manged servers go to Server Intellect. Best damn support ever. Been with them for 2 years now.
Jamison
June 19th, 2008