Running filePro in the Cloud?

[Nancy Palmquist]

I have been running one of my companies on a server in the CLOUD for 
years.  Just a server farm somewhere.  You can get all kinds of service 
levels for these installations.  They can provide the Hardware, OS, 
backup solution, tech support for problems, etc.

I have people in 3 states that use the filepro application daily.

We had one failure in 5 years and were down for days, but our new 
solution with a virtual server would make that unlikely.  Other than 
that an occasional reboot (5 minutes - and installing Windows Updates), 
is all the maintenance it needs (Our big crash was when we owned an 
actual server on the farm.)  Ours is running Windows Terminal Services 
and the printing solution is part of the OS in our new setup.  It is 
also a virtual drive so it much easier to recover.   Most solutions for 
small businesses would be to use a virtual drive.

Our cost has run from 110 to 700 per month.  Service costs money. The 
more services they provide the more expensive the system.  I am not sure 
what you might find now, the prices have been dropping.

Nancy

On 5/19/2015 1:15 PM, Del via Filepro-list wrote:
> Hi:
>
> One of my clients asked me if he could run his filePro application in the cloud.
> What prompted this is that a board failed in his computer and he has been down for two days until they can ship him a new board (currently in transit).
> He told me he would really love to “get out of this IT s**t”.
> Anyway, I don’t know if you can do it, or, even more importantly, if it is advisable to do it.
> Anybody out there looked into this?
>
> Del Neroni
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