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[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

I agree with the pings, but the bandwidth issue, mainly acts as follows:

For movies; yes
For the strings that are normally used with database queries to build
homepages; no

ggt

2008/5/31 John May <jmaymailing at pointinspace.com>:
> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi John,
>>>>>
>>>>> I saw your post and wanted to offer our services to you. We have
>>>>> servers
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>>>>> you.
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>> on
>>>>> the FX mailing list; my clients are very pleased with our services.
>>>>>
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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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