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
news:C2F8E58C1F7D4A4CB525AC96D503B58E0EBEBE@bunyip .abacus-labs.com...
> 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...
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
news:C2F8E58C1F7D4A4CB525AC96D503B58E0EBEBE@bunyip .abacus-labs.com...
> 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...