Charlie Coleman wrote: > The systems use a 1-time download/install file. After that it uses FTP to > retrieve a 'version' file, check it against a local version file, and > download what is necessary. The 'user' does need 'install' rights to > initially get the software on their PC, but other than that, they just need > read/write/delete... access to the folder where they installed the > application (and to their local database folder if applicable). > > Up until a few years ago, all the systems were being supported by a dual > 333MHz Pentium server running Windows NT Server. The resource utilization > on that box was, on average, 5-10% all the time. Of course there were > peaks, but the box was in no way being taxed. The main reason we got a new > box was because we were running out of disk space and the machine was so > old they couldn't find hard drives for it. One of the systems was pushing > our VFP DB past 20GB and so we decided we wanted some modern drives with a > lot of space (now that 20 GB DB is pushing 34 GB and the other systems have > steadily grown, so we're gonna need to expand it's disk space soon as well). > > From what I've observed, it seems the 'web page' stuff is by far the > biggest hog of server resources. You'd expect that of course because of the > essentially 'dumb terminal' concept of browser-based systems. About the > biggest bottleneck in our design is that initial startup when the 'version' > file is grabbed. But the file is generally under 3KB, and since it's > retrieved via FTP all the overhead/burden of HTTP...etc isn't there. So the > only real limitation is the communication bandwidth. And from what I've > seen, using the FTP approach is the most efficient way to go. > > > Charlie -- it'd be GREAT if you could publish the "downloader" to the Downloads site on ProFox. ?!???
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