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Francis Griffin
26-Jan-2005, 10:23 AM
Hi all

Has anyone actually done this yet. It seems so elegant in theory, it would
be nice to know the pitfalls in practice, if there are any!

FG


"Marco Kuipers" <marco.kuipers@nci.com.au> wrote in message
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> Knut, Archie, Stephen
>
> I must also say that although I was aware of the enterprise edition
> and the master slave nodes, from several DAW conferences. The really
> cool feature of simply security and DMZ issues was never explained and
> I did not think of it either..
>
> All it was marketed as (or at least what I remember) is that this way
> we can have several servers sharing the load if the load cannot be
> carried with one machine. As quite powerfull machines are for sale
> with the right moneys, I did not expect ever to get into this problem.
>
> I think that DAW indeed could spend a bit of time, working out the
> security issues this solves and make it a proper whitepage also
> included in the help and refered to in the next newsletter.
>
> All Dataflex users should be made aware that the .DAT (or .INT files
> with passwords) do NOT have to be on the webapp server this way, but
> only nicely in your own safe network!!!
>
> Thanks to all that made me understand this powerfull feature! What was
> I thinking that we had to do this by DAT-ODBC-WebApp... ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Marco
>
>
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 01:37:36 -0500, "Knut Sparhell" <knut@sparhell.no>
> wrote:
>
>>Archie Campbell <archie@accordsystems.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Would you be so kind as to point me in its direction?
>>> I would love to read more about it.
>>
>>Visual DataFlex Help (or Studio Help)
>>Chapter: Development Tools and Utilites
>> \ Web Application Administrator
>> \ Important Concepts and Options
>>Page: Load Balancing
>>
>>
>>It's not much...