Web Hosting Glossary

Cold fusion - CFM

Cold Fusion is a server-side solution for creating interactive and database-driven Web sites.

You build Web pages that include special tags, which must be hosted on an application server that supports Cold Fusion. When a browser requests the page, the application server interprets the special tags, replaces the tags with the results of calculations or database queries, and sends the final page to the Web server, which sends it to the web browser.

Cold Fusion uses a tag-based language—you mix HTML tags with tags from the Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML). Cold fusion pages usually end with the .cfm extension.

Cold fusion (.cfm) is not commonly offered by web hosting companies.