Ray, prior to CF10, with a single enterprise license you can do 10 cloud/vps installations, so unless they need more than that, and their existing license is an enterprise license, then it should suffice. The usage within a cluster also depends what type of cluster. If it is a load balancing cluster where all nodes are online, then each one will use up one of your 10 instances, if however it is a failover cluster, then only the online/active nodes count. Sounds like their host don't really understand the CF licensing or they are using physical legacy servers rather than virtual servers. Are they a known CF host or just a generic host? If they are a generic host then I would suggest they speak with a host who specialise in CF.
Also why are they using a VPN to access the app currently? if they are happy for the app to be public anyway, then why not just make the existing server publicly accessible, using a DMZ or port forwarding. On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Ray Meade <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jon, having my own license wouldn't really help. They're already using my > old license and have the app. hosted internally, but they want to go with > outside hosting so they can access the app. from anywhere without having to > VPN into their network. (plus the database is stored on their hosting > companies servers because the same database also drives the PHP pages that > their clients access so the CF server is actually VPN'ing onto the web > server to create the data connection and it keeps timing out) Their hosting > company said it can't just use their existing license because their web > servers are clustered and it would require more than one license so buying > another license won't really help me any. (personally, I think they just > want to be able to make a profit off of the licensing costs since they're > quoting $ 7,000. per license and I've seen them listed for just over $ > 5,000. online) But thanks for the offer anyway, Jon and for your advice as > well. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:356462 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
