[FX.php List] Amazon Elastic Load Balancing implementation?

[Andrew Denman]

Jonathan,

I don't think it is possible to provision FileMaker assets this way because, as I understand it, the WPE to FileMaker relationship is 1:1. You can't have multiple FileMaker servers use one WPE nor one FileMaker server using multiple WPEs.

You could load balance the web server if you separate FileMaker and the WPE from the public web server (2/3 server setup: Web > FileMaker/WPE or Web > WPE > FileMaker).

Andrew Denman


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Hi Folks,

I just wanted to check with the experts before replying back to a client about their inquiry.

A client is running  a couple of FMS 12 servers at Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Web Publishing. To accommodate spikes in web publishing demands, a suggestion has been made to employ Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) to dynamically adjust the number of server instances that are available to provide web services.  In theory, this would spawn additional clones of a FileMaker Web Publishing environment on an as-needed basis.

While this might work in a pure html environment or even a MySQL environment, I don't see how this would work in a FileMaker Server environment.  At the very least, it would seem to violate FMS licensing.

I could not find any discussions on the net.  Any advise from this group?

Thanks

Jonathan
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