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[John May]

Some numbers to exemplify:

Ping between two local machines here:  .118ms

Typical ping from east coast to east coast machine:  35ms best case

Typical ping from east coast to west coast machine:  100ms best case


And, of course, you've got the bandwidth issue too.  A gigabit between
local machines is a helova lot faster than DSL connections.

	- John


John May wrote:
> Huh?  How could the latency of running the solution on the same machine 
> possibly be higher?  Note that we do abstract our FMSA boxes from our 
> web servers, with gigabit ethernet in between, which is going to result 
> in a LOT less latency than going out over the internet for the connection.
> 
> Perhaps you've been lucky so far, but we have tried connecting to 3rd 
> party FMSA servers in the past from the web servers here, and when the 
> connection breaks (FMSA goes down, internet route temporarily fails, 
> etc.) it can wreak havoc on the web server.
> 
>     - John
> 
> 
> Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
>> Hmm, on the contrary this has never been a problem, and I have done
>> several of those,
>> the latency of running the solution on the same machine is alot higher,
>> than the one you can expect from to remote locations.
>>
>> Slowest connection I have tried is 2mbit SDSL for webserver and 2 mbit
>> SDSL for FMSA,
>> and it works a dream!
>>
>> ggt
>>
>> 2008/5/31 John May <jmaymailing at pointinspace.com>:
>>> Note that it sounds like John wants to host his FileMaker database on 
>>> his
>>> own local FMS instance, and connect to it with a 3rd party Web/PHP 
>>> server.
>>>  I personally would highly recommend against this, due to latency issues
>>> going between the two over the internet, as well as the tendency for
>>> FileMaker to take out the web server if the database becomes 
>>> unavailable.
>>>
>>> We offer FileMaker/PHP hosting here, but only allow connection to 
>>> databases
>>> hosted on our local servers:
>>>
>>>        http://www.pointinspace.com/
>>>
>>> - John
>>>
>>>
>>> Bob Patin wrote:
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>>>>
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>>>> On May 30, 2008, at 1:44 PM, CSInfo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am looking for a 3rd party web hosting service that has PHP 5 and 
>>>>> is FX
>>>>> friendly.
>>>>> Other requirements:
>>>>> - Custom Domain name
>>>>> - FTP remote access
>>>>> - The FMSA 9 will be NOT be on the web server machine so a static 
>>>>> ip to
>>>>> configure the router to FMSA for access.
>>>>> - Backups
>>>>> - Low volume at first but potential to have thousands of hits per day.
>>>>> Can the group suggest a few? with experiences?
>>>>> Should I stay away from smallbusiness.yahoo.com? (they support PHP but
>>>>> some functions disabled)
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> John Funk
>>>>> Critical Solution
>>>>>
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