girish Posted April 20, 2001 Share Posted April 20, 2001 Hi folks - I have a question about the system requirements for using FM on the web. I have version 4.1 of Filemaker running on a Macintosh 7350/180 Workgroup Server, with 48 megs of RAM (25 megs allocated to FM). I have a database that contains 160 fields. Each field is a question in a questionnaire - I want to server the questionnaire over the web. I plan on spreading the questions across 5 or 6 web pages in total, with a maximum of 35 questions on any one page. The questions are mostly radio button response (a choice of 9 buttons per question) so return a single digit entry to the database, but there are also a few text boxes as well (ie. where the respondent types in a short answer) - not sure if all this info. is relevant or not(?) It's possible that I might have up to 100-200 people trying to complete the questionnaire at the same time (well, not at exactly the same time - but all accessing it within the space of a few minutes, so that some people are starting as others are half-way through etc). To me, this seems like a lot of people! I don't have any concerns about my network connection here (direct LAN connection on a university campus), and realise that the respondents' set up will also play a part in how well they are able to access the database (ie. their network, their computers etc). So, setting aside those two issues, given my database requirements, and the hardware/software I've got - * Should FM be able to handle this type of load without user performance degrading, or am I dreaming? * What sort of load should the FM web server be able to handle, reaistically? * If I need to, what's the best way that I could improve performance (I could probably swing a RAM upgrade, *might* be able to move to a (older) G3, but probably won't be able to upgarde to a later version of FM). Hope this makes sense. Thanks Girish.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Claridge Posted April 20, 2001 Share Posted April 20, 2001 RAM is the biggest issue. However, I would try it, as is, and see how it goes. Good luck. Garry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatoli Posted April 20, 2001 Share Posted April 20, 2001 The FM 5 Unlimited is 3-7 time faster on Web than 4.1 RAM will help. Faster machine will help WNT will be faster than MacOS You can build the "server farm" from Macs or PCs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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