JohnW Posted March 2, 2001 Share Posted March 2, 2001 I work at a K-12 school district and I have setup a simple FMPro database to keep track of repair requests for our department. I am using the web companion to enable the other schools to add records ( work orders ) and search the database. The down side is that I have it running on my PC that I do most of my other work on and I have to keep it running all the time. Is there a dedicated FMPro server product that has web access ? I can't imagine that the web companion can really handle that much load. The reason I'm concerned is that the general maintenance department is looking into a web accessable solution for their work request DB as well. they have a lot more volumn than I do. What if I need more than one db running ? ( theirs and mine plus any related DBs ) JohnW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatoli Posted March 2, 2001 Share Posted March 2, 2001 50 databases, unlimited visitors = FM 5 Unlimited. Around 5-10 TPS, depending on Machine, complexity, design... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flexistentialism Posted March 6, 2001 Share Posted March 6, 2001 Filemaker pro is single threaded meaning that it can handle one request at a time. Depending on you speed of your computer server software and processor cycle sharing between the open apps you could have probs (especially if you're using the computer as a desktop machine). The best thing to do is setup a RAIC (redundant array of inexpensive?! computers) by this I mean you would have a web/lan server (multithread) handling the requests which in turn passes the request to the middleware (Web Connector, Lasso FM remote) which then passes the request to, (via webcompanion) / or queries directly, the FMPro database which is open on any number of machines running FMPro Unlimited (single thread) which in turn pass the data to the databases hosted on a machine running FMPro Server (multi thread). So as you can see you get around the single threaded middle bit (FMPro Unlimited) by having lots of them (well more than 1 anyway) and you get around the processor sharing by splitting the apps between the computers so they have the processor almost to themselves. I don't know where the inexpensive bit comes from in RAIC cos it cost me loads!!! but it was worth it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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