Filemaker Web Limits?

Olly Groves

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Apr 11, 2001, 4:52:45 PM4/11/01

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I've got to put a Office based Filemaker System on the Web.

IT needs to be able to cope with aorund 3000 users per week being able to
add responses (online) to promotional material they've been sent.
(Currently returned via snailmail and then entered into system manually)

It works fine at a workgroup level but i've not much experince with FMP5 and
the Web (or Lasso).

Does anyone have any similar systmes/traffic usage. If so could you
recomend technologies? e.g FM & Lasso / CSV's to SQL / ODBC ?

Thanks

Olly

Olly Groves

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Apr 11, 2001, 5:04:06 PM4/11/01

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Blimey, I should learn how to spell before i ask complicated dbase
questions!

Olly

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Bob Patin

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Apr 11, 2001, 9:25:14 PM4/11/01

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In article <9b2gpr$j4s$1...@neptunium.btinternet.com>,
oliver...@btinternet.com says...

FileMaker Pro Unlimited allows 220 distinct users in a 12-hour period;
that ought to do it for you... if it's really a problem you may have to
split out into multiple FileMaker servers, but I doubt you'll have
trouble...

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GS

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Apr 12, 2001, 9:33:06 AM4/12/01

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I've never heard or read that before. Really???
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> FileMaker Pro Unlimited allows 220 distinct users in a 12-hour period;
>

Paul E. Ester

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Apr 12, 2001, 12:07:59 PM4/12/01

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Filemaker unlimited as the name implies has no limits on the number of users
that can connect. Any limitation/performance issues with this product are
related to hardware or bandwidth. The product is scalable through the use of
a RAIC.

The limited version is FileMaker Pro, which only allows 10 users during a
rolling 12 hour period.

Thx,

Brian

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Olly Groves

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Apr 13, 2001, 9:39:06 AM4/13/01

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Paul

Thanks for the tip although my main concern is with the amount of concurrent
users Filemaker can deal with. Each user will have a separate login which
pulls up the specific promos that they need to respond to, then insert data
and upload to the database.

I was told Filemaker [Web] can only perform one request at a time (although
I'm not sure about Lasso). We expect up to 400 concurrent uses at busy
times and it needs to be fast as possible to make the user experience
painless.

Also this maybe a silly question but does setting up a RAIC mean you have to
buy separate copies of Unlimited?

Thanks for your help

Olly

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Paul E. Ester

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Apr 14, 2001, 2:36:30 PM4/14/01

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The way it works the users really are not concurrent. The users download a
form to the browser and the connection to the server closes. The users fills
out the form and then clicks submit this opens a connection to the web
server adds a new record and then closes the connection. Both these
functions happen very rapidly with FMP. A function that might not be handled
so well would be if all the users were performing finds on large text
fields, with large numbers of records at the same time. The answer to your
RAIC question is yes.

Brian

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Tim Booth

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Apr 15, 2001, 3:28:59 AM4/15/01

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Olly Groves wrote:
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> Paul
>
> Thanks for the tip although my main concern is with the amount of concurrent
> users Filemaker can deal with.

FileMaker through the Web does handle only one truly concurrent
connection at a time - but the web does keep the connections open,
only when data is being sent or received. A typical get of a page,
or return of a form is in the region of 40-70 milliseconds according
to my logs, so about 15-25 requests served per *second* at absolute
maximum (realistically, I'd go for a few a second on average). Even with
400
users online at the same time, their percived speed od response should
never be slow.

See also an old paper of mine:
http://www.bull.usyd.edu.au/fm_doit/faq/00924.html

Cheers

Webko

Olly Groves

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Apr 15, 2001, 8:58:24 AM4/15/01

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Thanks for all the help. I'll give FMP5 a go...better get to work!

Regards

Olly Groves

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