cloud server

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
>He may be.  He wasn't explicit.  
>
>If it's a "terminal session only" scenario to a VPS or other VM where fP is
>hosted and run natively on the same storage as the data, okay, that may be
>fine.

It would be OK if the FilePro application is run entirely on
the server with clients accessing via ssh or even Windows Remote
Desktop over a sufficiently fast link.

>If it's a situation where the data itself is stored somewhere in the cloud,
>and a share from Timbuktu is mounted to some internal Linux system, you're
>talking about a nightmare.

Agreed.

As far as which service to use, the only one I have experience
with is Amazon EC2 with Linux VMs.  Setting up a single VM is
pretty easy, and the costs seem reasonable.

Bill
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