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[John May]

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:
>>> Hi John,
>>>
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>>>
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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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