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> For the last 5 yars we have primarily been involved in creating and
> maintaining applications in MS-Access and suport dozens of systems we have
> created. We are now extending our applications to the web using Cold Fusion.
> The current challenge is creating methodologies for shuttling information
> between our web sites to our desktop applications.
>
> In situations where clients have their own web servers this is obviously not
> a problem but this is not practical in many cases so we use web hosting
> services. It has also been suggested that we convert our applications to
> 100% web apps but this is usually not feasible. At the current time the only
> choices I can see are constantly FTP'ing files back and forth (a nuisance)
> and writing complex sychronization routines to email extract files back and
> forth. If only I link (attach) my desktop Access directly to the tables on
> the web.
>
> Any suggestions? Any useful utilities?
>
Are you intending that your users will have the option to use the either web
app or the desktop app (or both)?
Scenario:
I make a change (at work) on the desktop app and go home for lunch
Oops, I want to double check the change. Go on-line and look at app through web to
see my changes. I made one modification on-line.
Someone back at the office needs to see my change in real-time when accessing
the desktop app...
Is this the type of thing you are trying to accomplish? As much as I hate to say
it, your best bet might be writing some form of synchronization script, perhaps
something that runs once a day, all automated like?
Without knowing the nature of the apps I don't know how in sync you need
your information to be.
>
> Also Virtualscape / Hostcentric won't let us have RDS access for security
> reasons. Anybody have suggestions on other hosting services?
CFX hosting will let you have RDS, but they will not take kindly to you using
their shared production servers for development. If you work out some kind of
collocation deal I doubt any host will care if you have RDS working or not, after
all, it's your machine.
I have been pleased with the CFX support, but they don't offer it 24/7 so when
I'm actually working on New Years Eve and (all of a sudden) the server crashes
and comes back up, removing my 'write' access to my directory, I had to wait
two days before anyone was there to fix it.
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