Scaling IWP to more than 100 users - Possible? Practical?

[dsghs]

Hey guys/gals,

I have a solution that I'm serving up to about 10 IWP users currently (as well as a few client users via FMGo)

In the next few months, the number will expand to 200-250 web users. Obviously a single FMSA12 license wouldn't handle this so I have a few questions.

1. Would it be practical to continue using IWP for this? How would I do that? Additional server licenses/installations? Would all of these additional servers be able to use/connect to the same database?

2. Would it be more practical to develop a new site for CWP? I'd imagine there would never be 200 simultaneous requests, so I wouldn't have to get additional machines or server licenses. Is there any assistance in this as my web programming experience is limited? I know there was a PHP site assistant in previous versions of FMSA, but it was taken away in 12. Can I continue to use things like portals, web viewers, and containers with this type of WP setup?

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated!

[David Jondreau]

I don't know how you would go about getting >200 users onto one IWP database. CWP is the way to go. Whether it's practical or not, is up to yo.

One of the aspects of CWP is that there are zero interface elements from FileMaker. Your data is still there, and you can call scripts, and you do need layouts to get a dataset, but the design of your layout is irrelevant.

[dsghs]

Thanks for the info. I rely heavily on the layout elements of the solution and am not in a time position to learn how to create these elements in a web language, so I guess I'll split up each department into its own database file and have a central database that will collect the data for the others using scripted imports. That way I can spread the IWP load/licensing across multiple servers as the main database will not be accessed directly by all iwp clients.