[FX.php List] [Off-ish] Advice on FMS8A -> FMS9A migration strategy

[Bob Patin]

I've never run my web apps on a single machine, but because our  
hosting clients also use their databases by connecting remotely, the  
database servers get a lot of traffic. To have a single machine doing  
web serving, remote database hosting, and also doing Web Publishing  
Engine duties, is asking a lot out of a single machine. We based our  
configuration decision mainly on FMI's on recommendation that a multi- 
machine setup is the optimal setup for using databases for web  
applications.

I can't imagine that a single machine could ever match the speed of  
dual machines for web apps, since you're lightening the load on the  
FileMaker Server considerably by not putting the WPE on it and not  
using that machine for web serving. In FileMaker's best practices  
guidelines (and also at Devcon), they stressed that users should avoid  
having the FMS machine do anything MORE than just running FMS[A].

Bob Patin
Longterm Solutions
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On Nov 6, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Leo R. Lundgren wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Howcome you recommend this? Is it a pure performance perspective?  
> What has been working better since you switched to using two  
> machines/what were the problems when running on one machine?
>
> Thanks,
>
> // Leo