How can I increase web speed on a Mac?

[zorn]

Hi.

I have a couple FM DB up on my company's web site and I know the computer is old (110-MHz Power Macintosh) but is there a way to increase the responce time?

I gave FM 55+ MB ram and it fills it about half way.

I heard turning file sharing off may help but am currently using it for FTP.

Any suggestions.

Oh btw, if you want to check out the db: http://databases.seyboldreports.com/

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Mike Zornek, Web Development

Seybold Publications

428 East Baltimore Avenue

P.O. Box 644

Media, PA 19063, USA

Phone: (610) 565-2480 x131

Fax: (610) 565-4659

Email: [email protected]

[Vaughan]

Zorn

Where where I work some people set up a FMP web service with *three* older Macintosh computers, and it is way fast. I think the fastest is a 604 processor (ie, not even a G3). It uses FMP 3 and 4, so things may be different if you are using FMP5.

The first machine runs FMP Server 3 to host all the databases. Just FMP 3, nothing else is running on the machine especially not ASIP.

The second machine runs FMP 4.x with Web Companion enabled. This machine web-shares only those databases needed to generate the web pages. Nothing else running.

The third machine is used for automated backup via AppleScripts that run on the other two machines.

All three machines are inter-connected with fast Ethernet for maximum speed.

[dylan]

Zorn, just had a look at your website, using 56k form the UK, and it seems to be running fine, quite within acceptable speed boundaries. Perhaps it slows with multiple users?

What kind of internet connection do you have? I'm interested because I'm currently crippled by 28k/56k dial up (I need to host sites when I'm travelling).