Re: LC server experience return anyone ?

2013-08-21 Thread jbv
Thanks to everyone who contributed with wise useful advices both on and offline. I still have a couple of questions comments though. A few years ago, when I had the metacard engine installed on a dedicated server, the way it worked was that a new instance of the engine would launch for every

Re: LC server experience return anyone ?

2013-08-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
jbv wrote: A few years ago, when I had the metacard engine installed on a dedicated server, the way it worked was that a new instance of the engine would launch for every incoming request, and would quit once the task was completed. This was ok for the kind of site I was working on :

Re: LC server experience return anyone ?

2013-08-21 Thread RunRevPlanet
more per month, but it was essential for my data to stay here in Sydney. Scott - Scott McDonald Components, Controls, Tools and Resources for LiveCode www.runrevplanet.com -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LC-server-experience-return-anyone

Re: LC server experience return anyone ?

2013-08-20 Thread RunRevPlanet
for any mission critical web site or apps. Good luck with it. - Scott McDonald Components, Controls, Tools and Resources for LiveCode www.runrevplanet.com -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LC-server-experience-return-anyone-tp4668862p4668911

Re: LC server experience return anyone ?

2013-08-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
RunRevPlanet wrote: Knowing little about Apache meant I carefully followed the instructions in the LiveCodeNotes-5_0_2-Server.pdf Deployment Notes and it worked after some experimentation. I did have had to make sure the permissions of the livecode-server.so file were set to allow it to

LC server experience return anyone ?

2013-08-19 Thread jbv
Hi list, I'd need some experience return on the use of LC server. As mentioned in some of my previous posts, due to the numerous problems we met with on-rev servers and random bugs appearing after the migration of one of our accounts from thor to pancake, we are about to gather all our on-rev

Re: LC server experience return anyone ?

2013-08-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
jbv wrote: Several years ago (before on-rev was available) I had a similar setup using a metacard engine. Things were fine, although we experienced a couple of problems : - communication between the engine and mySQL was quite slow, especially with large amounts of data, and I found out that I'd