Programming with dBASE - Using Plus on the web

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Using Plus on the web

Rick

2006-12-11, 7:14 pm

I'd like to offer a supplement to my plus app now running on local networks that would run on the web. Am planning to set up apache server, but have some basic questions.

First, how do you determine the capacity of the web server you will need to serve your visitors?

Second, I have a fiber optic line (running at 2/5 mb) used for the internet connection in the office. Currently, this is shared by those on my local network in the office and works great. But if I hook up a web server to this line, will I need to bump u
p the speed, or even add another line, to handle visitors to the server and still handle the standard internet stuff we do now?

I expect visitors could number at least in the hundreds per day for this service.

Thanks for any help on this you can give,
Rick

Christian K

2006-12-12, 7:13 pm

Rick wrote:

> I'd like to offer a supplement to my plus app now running on local
> networks that would run on the web. Am planning to set up Apache
> server, but have some basic questions.
>
> First, how do you determine the capacity of the web server you will
> need to serve your visitors?
>
> Second, I have a fiber optic line (running at 2/5 mb) used for the
> internet connection in the office. Currently, this is shared by
> those on my local network in the office and works great. But if I
> hook up a web server to this line, will I need to bump up the speed,
> or even add another line, to handle visitors to the server and still
> handle the standard internet stuff we do now?
>
> I expect visitors could number at least in the hundreds per day for
> this service.
>
> Thanks for any help on this you can give,
> Rick

Depends on your architecture for your web app, and the data being
passed in & out. Will you be simply passing data to & from the browser,
or something more elaborate? How much headroom does your fiber line
have right now? Will visitors be concurrent, or scattered out more
thru-out the day? Will all the web processing be done locally on the
server, or will it also be communicating with other machines on the
network? Just some things to think about in your planning.

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Rick

2006-12-12, 7:13 pm

Christian,

Thanks for the good questions. A couple more questions I hope you can help me with:

> Depends on your architecture for your web app
The plan is for a Plus app that will simply collect name and address data and store it in dbf files. Not much interaction, and little time needed for each visitor to complete the task.

> Will visitors be concurrent, or scattered out more
thru-out the day?

Approximately 100 visitors per day, with 20 % concurrent. Not sure if this is considered a lot or a little.

> Will all the web processing be done locally on the
> server, or will it also be communicating with other machines on the
> network?

Off peak hours will be used for communication with other machines on the network to transfer data only. Peak hours the server will be dedicated only to serving visitors who will be updating their name/address/contact info.

> How much headroom does your fiber line
> have right now?

Could you help me with how this is measured? We use very little of the internet on this line now - maybe average of 2 hours a day of email checking and minor time surfing.

Not sure how this works. If this line gets overloaded, can I assume we would have another put in and dedicate that to the Web server? If yes, we would probably use this line and monitor it in some way to see if another must be dedicated to the service.

Many thanks for any help you can provide,
Rick

Christian K Wrote:

> Rick wrote:
>
>
>
> Depends on your architecture for your web app, and the data being
> passed in & out. Will you be simply passing data to & from the browser,
> or something more elaborate? How much headroom does your fiber line
> have right now? Will visitors be concurrent, or scattered out more
> thru-out the day? Will all the web processing be done locally on the
> server, or will it also be communicating with other machines on the
> network? Just some things to think about in your planning.
>
> --
>

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