[FX.php List] one machine intallation

[Kevin Futter]

On 25/4/07 1:15 AM, "Jonathan Schwartz" <jonathan at exit445.com> wrote:

> Thank you!  Now *this* makes sense.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> At 9:48 AM -0500 4/24/07, Bob Patin wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 2) I asked about web servers; as I suspected, he confirmed that the
>> speed bottleneck with FMSA and a web application is in WPE, where
>> the PHP code is interpolated (not sure if that would be the correct
>> term) into XML. So logically, the machine running WPE needs to be as
>> fast as possible.
>> 
>> He also opined that the best place to put WPE is on the web server.
>> This makes sense, since it leaves the FMSA machine free to deal
>> solely with FileMaker tasks; since FMSA does all the
>> number-crunching, as opposed to earlier versions of FM Server, it
>> makes sense to leave it by itself to handle FileMaker-related tasks.
>> 

It's more-or-less the same as what we do - FMSA on one Xserve and WPE on the
webserver (another Xserve). If you have the infrastructure to support it,
it's definitely the most efficacious solution.

-- 
Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/



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