Many moons ago, I reported on how you could write a template to parse your server.log file for slow page reports.

In case you didn’t know - the ColdFusion Administrator lets you log files that take too long to process. This setting is found in the Logging Settings page as seen in the following screen shot:

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I’m working on a tutorial for a client involving file uploads (which I’ll be sharing on the blog). In the tutorial I talk a bit about monitoring the number of uploads and how much space they are taking.

I was curious what methods exist for finding out how much space is being used on a drive and how much space is available.

Finding out the space used by a directory is possible with CFDIRECTORY and query of query:
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Other people have talked about CFTHREAD (see Ben Nadel’s excellent post on the topic) so I’m not going to bother with a full description of the tag.

Instead I wanted to show a quick example of where I’ve already put it to use in production, and I wanted to share a warning about how you have to be careful when using the tag.

BlogCFC makes use of a ping feature when posting entries. This lets you inform blog aggregators that you’ve written a new blog post. This way your latest devotional on Paris Hilton won’t be missed by the masses.

Most aggregators simply take a simple HTTP hit, while others take a bit more work. BlogCFC supports simple HTTP pings, as well as Technorati, Weblogs, and Icerocket. The code is rather simple. You pass in the URLs you want to ping and this code block loops over them:
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