If you need significant 4D Client (not web serving) involvement with 4D Server or if the need of the web server for 4D data and functionality is non-trivial, I would forget the cloud as an option. Only solution in that direction I could think of would be to put 4D Server and 4D Client/webserver on the same cloud (you know what I mean) and hope that or arrange to have the 4D Clients on low-latency connections to 4D Server. This can be done with dedicated routed circuits but can be really expensive. We do have at least one setup like Arnaud describes, everything in-house with webserver/client in a DMZ.
As he suggests, one way to avoid the expense under this last scenario is to design your db for higher latency connections with 4D Client. I just can’t get my head around the concept of putting 4D Server (as server to 4D Clients) in the cloud. Why deny your customer much of 4D’s potential? Why deny yourself the chance to provide it? Sure, you can whip something up that works ok at first, but unless you and your customer go into the project agreeing that it’s just going to be a short-term throw-away… —Bill > On Nov 18, 2016, at 5:18 AM, Paul Dennis <i...@completepicture.co.uk> wrote: > > Hello Scott, Bill, Tim > > I'm trying to decide where to host the 4Dserver application. The options are > > 1. 4D server inhouse and 4D Client web serving in cloud on a dedicated > server. The limitation here is the speed of our connection as this is a > consumer site and could be busy. > 2. 4D server and 4D Client in cloud on same windows server > 3. 4D server and 4D Client in cloud on with client running under hyper V on > same machine ie isolate the server and the client. > > At the moment I'm will be going with option 2. > > Any thoughts > Thanks > Paul > > ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
