| > 1. We have a web app that will be used by many, many people. We
| > would like
| > to host this app on a cluster of servers. The catch is, we want
| > everyone to
|
| Is it one company per box? Or multiple? If it's one company per box, then
| just use the same DNS name and point to the a different db on your db
server
| for each company.
I'm not sure I understand. Let me try to explain again. We have an app. 1
machine isn't going to be able to handle 1000 companies using that app. So,
we have a cluster of, say, 5 machines and 1 database server. Any company
can hit any machine in the cluster depending on when they show up. Right
now, we are using a different DNS for each company. Since they could hit
and of the 5 machines, we would need to have all 1000 DSNs on all 5
machines. This doesn't sound like the best idea. A single DSN where we can
pass the name of the database file to access would be much better, but I'm
having trouble getting this to work. Is it even possible?
| If it's multiple companies, then use DNS connections. This is possible in
| CF5.
I don't follow this statement. Also, what if we don't have 5.0 yet?
| > 2. We want people who want to use the app to be able to sign up for it
on
| > the web site and begin using it almost immediately, without any
| > intervention
| > on our part. Signing up for the app requires that the sign up program
| > creates some folders and registry entries on each server in the
| > cluster. Is
|
| First, I'd _strongly_ consider rethinking your strategy. Why do you want
to
| use the registry?
To create the DSN entries.
| Why do you want to make physical paths?
We need to create a folder on the image server for each company to store
their images in. I can see a way to do this, so this isn't much of a
problem.
| If you want each client to be able
| to do, www.myapp.com/companyname,
| then use something like
| www.myapp.com/a.cfm/companyname, to create 'fake' folders.
I'm not sure I follow you here either.
Thanks
Todd
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