[FX.php List] FileMaker server in cluster or cloud

[Alex Gates]

Webko -

Thanks for the tips and excellent example!

Tim 'Webko' Booth wrote:
> Dear Alex,
>> A followup:
>>
>> If we are concerned about scalability (since we currently have FM 
>> Server and the web publishing engine and website on one machine and it 
>> is choking) is it OK to, perhaps, use a cloud / cluster setup like 
>> http://www.mosso.com/ or Amazon's service for our web server and keep 
>> our existing machine simply as our FileMaker server?
>>
>> In other words - are latency issues a problem if the web server and 
>> filemaker server are not in the same intranet?
> 
> Not if the network connection between them is decent - we do a lot of 
> remotely hosted sites back to our FM Server and there have been few 
> reported issues.
> 
> The times that issues were reported, it was due to bandwidth being 
> restricted for one reason or another, and a lot of websites were slow.
> 
> http://www.pleatco.com/search/search.php is a US based web server to an 
> Australian FM Server - can't get much more remote...
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Webko
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