Non-profit discounts are available, but the concurrent connection limit is extremely restrictive. If you have 5 connections and one person opens 5 tabs to your site, that’s it, all of your connections are being used and when one is released it takes 90 seconds before it becomes available for another person.
I can see how this might make sense for a site where access is limited to members of a small team, but I don’t see any use for CWP in the world at large — even the unlimited version is not guaranteed to handle more that 50 concurrent connections. But perhaps I have misunderstood some essential point… AB > On 15 mars 2015, at 19:22, Jonathan Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Absolutely agree with Richard here (except for insisting that non-profits > have no money). > > Now might be a really good time to learn CWP and let your web solutions > really take wing. > > Jonathan > > On Mar 15, 2015, at 11:10 AM, "Richard S. Russell" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> However, there are cost considerations. When FMI finally departed from the >> “.fp7” file format (an incredibly robust workhorse that had served us all >> well thru Versions 7, 8, 8.5, 9, 10, and 11), it also abandoned the idea >> that you could do web publishing directly out of plain-vanilla FMP. >> Beginning with the “.fmp12” file format, you needed to go to the more >> expensive FileMaker Server to get that capability. (And, by “that >> capability”, I mean “the considerably more powerful WebDirect instead of the >> older, simpler, and increasingly out-of-date Instant Web Publishing”.) >> >> A copy of stand-alone FMP is $329. A copy of FMP Server with 0 connections >> is $1,044. But, of course, the whole point of web publishing is that you’re >> gonna want connections, so the least you’re looking at is Server + 5 >> connections for $1,944. That $1,600 bump is probably not an obstacle for >> even a small business, but it looms large for the kind of non-profit >> organizations I do most of my development for. And it may for Gary as well. >> >> But sooner or later, Gary, you’re gonna have to bite that bullet. IWP is >> already on its last legs of being able to work with the web browsers of >> 2015, and if I were you I wouldn’t be investing any more of my time in >> something that’s doomed to irrelevance in the next several years. >> > > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > Fletcher Data Consulting, LLC > [email protected] > http://www.fletcherdata.com > 502-509-7137 >
