Better performance with 2-machine FMS deployment?

[lauren@paradisepartners]

Hello,

Will a two machine FileMaker Server deployment, with SuperContainer on the web publishing machine, give better performance than a single machine FMS deployment? There are 10 FMP users. Most layouts contain images from SuperContainer, in some cases many images.

Thanks,

Lauren

[evanseeds]

Unless you're specifically seeing CPU, RAM, or hard drive bottlenecks on the FMS machine, I wouldn't expect moving to a multi-machine deployment to have much improvement. If you're running into slow loading times, and not seeing those sort of resource bottlenecks on the server machine, then the network speed is most likely the culprit for slow loading.

What exactly are the performance issues you're running into?