Hello Virgil,
I think there are three ways to go to keep this on the cheap: [A] VPS
[B] Vultr.com or [C] Brute force VFP
[A] For inexpensive VFP and Windows hosting, there are many companies
that provide Virtual Private Server (VPS) support. They typically start
at $25 per month. This will get you a Windows Server with IIS and you
can load VFP executables where you can run West-Wind or AFP or something
in between. The downside is that it truly is a "shared" server so
performance will suffer as the load grows by other users being added to
that server. Basically, your site can slow down because other people are
hogging the CPU and other resources.
[B] I recently stumbled upon a company called Vultr.com. They offer
server hosting but what makes them different is that you can upload a
Windows Server ISO and create your own Windows + VFP solution. I've used
them for Linux hosting and the performance on their "All SSD" server
farm is amazing. Prices start at $5 per month, but you'd need your own
license of a Windows server, and you would need to install and maintain
your own firewall, patches etc. You are on your own with this
configuration and that'd be pretty scary to me for a Windows solution.
[C] I'm not really clear on what your end result is but what about using
VFP locally on your PC or laptop to crank out HTML or PHP pages? You
can then programmatically FTP (curl or Sweet Potato's FTP FLL) to upload
those files to a cheap Linux hosting. For searching, you can embed the
Google search of your site. The downside is that the site is pretty
'static' but the price is right.
I'll cheat and throw in an option [D] here and suggest that you download
a free copy of Xojo from http://xojo.com. You can get started building
web applications that are very much like building a VFP desktop
application and use a very VFP application mindset. If you decide to
deploy the application (build an app using the "alone alone" target for
Linux) that is when you would need to purchase a license. Write both
your VFP app and the Xojo app to access the same MySQL databases. I've
tested deploying a Xojo app to Vultr.com and DigitalOcean.com for their
starting $5 per month cost and it seems to work well for the short time
I was testing it.
Good luck,
Kevin
CULLY Technologies, LLC
678-929-7762
http://cullytechnologies.com
http://cully.biz
On 01/29/2015 09:35 AM, Virgil Bierschwale wrote:
Does something like that exist?
I need to add data files from 02 till 15 for my maps and I'm running into
lots of garbage in the data which consumes an enormous amount of time
because of my inexperience with mysql, php, etc. and I could do it in
seconds using vfp.
I have found that I can enable a remote host (as long as it is on the
internet, static ip, etc)
What I'm thinking about is moving the data to a vfp host, doing all my
preprocessing there and then doing a insert into the mysql table, or maybe
even doing it all on a vfp box/host.
Normally time would not be an issue but I'm getting more and more demands
for my maps from various organizations and after being without work for so
long, I like demand.
Now if I can just figure out how to monetize it <g>
Thanks,
Virgil
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