Hi everyone,

I am new here. I just began working with a project that has been using FileMaker Server 9 and Pro 9. The current architecture uses one machine deployment but the machine is quite ancient and doesn't support any micro-frameworks that eases my web development duties.

I wanted to split this architecture to a multi machine deployment this ancient machine having only the Database, another better machine having a webserver and/or a web publishing engine. The reasoning behind this being that I can use a webserver(Gunicorn + Flask) and use PyFileMaker to obtain my data from the DB using XML.

I, however, realize that the web publishing engine is required at the database to publish my XML data which in turn requires a web server running(apache). This goes back to the same one machine deployment.
Am I missing a point here?

Thank you so much for taking your time to read this. It would be truly awesome if you could help me with this question.
Thank you once again and have a good day.

Regards,
Arjun

What OS?

In a 2-machine deployment you can have the web server and Web Publishing Engine on one machine and the database server on another.  The WPE does not have to be on the same machine as the databases.