[FX.php List] [OFF] Looking for information about load-balancing

[Bob Patin]

I don't think I'd take them down that path... with all the files they put up, it'd be a nightmare for them.

Because of the way my client generates these reports, it would be too slow to do it dynamically in FileMaker; he tells me that the script he uses takes something like 8 minutes to generate one multi-page report.

So that's why I eventually wrote a parser in Visual Basic that takes his outputted reports, makes HTML files out of them, and then they take those and upload them to the server. Tedious, clunky, but the web app queries are super-fast because the reports aren't rendered in realtime.

But it means that they have this humongous pile of HTML files, which live on a huge RAID device.

So in an ideal world, I'd find them a host who will give them the same access to the server that they have here, and I'm sure that'd NEVER happen at a colo like Amazon. 

I did find a device called the JetNEXUS that I've requested more info on...


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On Jun 15, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Joel Shapiro wrote:

> I don't know if it's still relevant, but a few yrs ago Don Levan did an un-conference at DevCon on installing FMS on Amazon, and apparently also at POE:
> 
> http://pauseonerror.pbworks.com/w/page/14902715/FileMaker%20Sever%20on%20Amazon%20EC2
> 
> Best,
> -Joel
> 
> 
> On Jun 14, 2012, at 10:52 PM, Bruce Robertson wrote:
> 
>> Can you describe that a little more - how to set up FileMaker Server on Amazon??
>> 
>> Bruce Robertson
>> 
>> On Jun 14, 2012, at 9:59 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Bob,
>>> 
>>> FYI, I recently set up a client with FMP Web Publishing at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and am about to try out their Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service.  The service monitors the health of each server and automatically switches on new instances when needed...at least in theory.
>>> 
>>> I'll keep you posted.
>>> 
>>> Jonathan
>>> 
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