As per my previous post, there is now only 5 days left until the inactive hosting account cleanup begins.

If you have not already done so, then you need to login to to HELM before 31st August to keep your account active and stop it from being deleted.

There is currently a problem with the ODBC service on cfdeveloper-cf2 which is stopping Microsoft Access DSN's from working from Coldfusion.

If your site is on this server and you are using Microsoft Access then you are most likley getting the following error.

[Macromedia][SequeLink JDBC Driver]TCP/IP error, connection refused.

I am currently investigating the issue and will have it resolved as soon as posisble. In the mean time you may want to take this opportunity to migrate away from Microsoft Access which is not really suitable for production websites as it is a desktop database.
Cfmldeveloper also supports MySQL 5, which is a popular free RDBMS, and a better solution than MS Access, here is a handy tool that will help you with the migration.

For more information on migrating from Access to MySQL google is your friend.

After discussions with Matt Woodward we have determined that Open BlueDragon is simply not suited for a shared hosting environment as it lacks any kind of sandboxing security which is required for such an environment and which ColdFusion and Railo both have. Matt also tells me that currently there are no plans to add any such functionality, so this means that OBD will not be supported on the cfmldeveloper free hosting platform anytime in the near future. For those that do wish to try Open BlueDragon a cheap Virtual Private Server is the answer, which is clealry the market it is aimed at.
I believe there are ready to go amazon S3 Linux templates available that have been created by the ODB community which is a quick and easy way to try it out if you know Linux. If you are a windows type of guy then we have windows hyper-v powered virtual servers available from £25 over at BlueThunder.

The time has come once again to do a clean-up of all the developer hosting accounts that are no longer active to make more space for new users on the servers.

At the end of this month on 31st August I will be deleting  any account that has not been logged into for the last 90 days.
If you have a free hosting plan and are still using it and have not logged into your account since 31st May 2010, then all you need to do is visit the HELM Control panel and login before the end of the month. If you have forgotten your login details then you can use the lost password option on the login page, but please only do it once otherwise you will reset your password multiple times which always causes confusion.
If you are no longer using the free hosting and happy for your account to be deleted or have any other issues then please submit a support ticket or contact me via  get satisfaction