limitations of FM 6?

[DocPit]

I am interested in putting an application process online that would require access to a database. There will be a lot of traffic to the site (over 12,000 hits) and I'm wondering what issues FM may have with multiple hits and/or session management?

Are there benefits to incorporating Lasso?

Thanks.

[omiossec]

Did you mean 12 000 hits (included images, flat file) /per hours or 12 000 database request.

For the second Lasso will not solve anything.

I think that if you need to make a choice, you can take a look at language and application feature.

Lasso run on standard web server (http 1.1, multihoming, custom header), with a programagation language (using variable, array, map, function, object ...)

Standalone Web companion use cdml which is more a request language.

[DocPit]

Thank you for your previous response. More specifically, I currently use FileMaker Pro 6 to manage the database for applications. This year, I want to web-enable the database so that people can apply online. (there will be ~15,000 applications over 2 months) We also want over 500 clients to be able to enter information (modify and double check information) without needing Filemaker on their systems. Security is also a major concern so that no one can tamper with the applications. Will Filemaker Pro 6 do the job adequately? Or are there features in Lasso that I will need?

[Anatoli]

If you need robust security go for Lasso.

[omiossec]

DocPit said:

Thank you for your previous response. More specifically, I currently use FileMaker Pro 6 to manage the database for applications. This year, I want to web-enable the database so that people can apply online. (there will be ~15,000 applications over 2 months) We also want over 500 clients to be able to enter information (modify and double check information) without needing Filemaker on their systems. Security is also a major concern so that no one can tamper with the applications. Will Filemaker Pro 6 do the job adequately? Or are there features in Lasso that I will need?

If security is one of your problem I suggest you to use lasso.

Lasso use a database abascration layer that let the administrator to set up acces to fiedl, layout, db ... and to restrict action to the db. It aslo use inline so with this you don't have to show db name and layout name in url that prevent some hacking.

[Anatoli]

omiossec said:

If security is one of your problem I suggest you to use lasso.

Lasso use a database abascration layer that let the administrator to set up acces to fiedl, layout, db ... and to restrict action to the db. It aslo use inline so with this you don't have to show db name and layout name in url that prevent some hacking.

Don't be fooled by FM Security Database settings for access to field, layout, and db ...

It looks almost like Olivier mentioned, but the difference is staggering.