Summary
Depending on you or your client's needs, you might choose either to run ColdFusion on your own server or to go with one of the many Web providers now offering ColdFusion support as an optional feature. With either method, you have a few decisions to make at this point.
If you host your site with someone else, you'll probably still want to be able to test your ColdFusion applications on your local system before uploading them. Allaire's special ColdFusion Studio package is ideal for this function because it provides a single-user version of ColdFusion server.
It's important to spend some research time before choosing a Web provider to run ColdFusion. Find out from potential hosts what version of the software they support, how many datasources ...
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