Hosting filePro off-site

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On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 02:24:58PM -0500, Scott Walker via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> 
> I've never been a fan of fp running on a Windows server and I don't know
> much about it, either locally or on a hosted server.  Just that it has
> always been way slower on a local server so I would expect that to be the
> same on a hosted Windows server.

I wasn't going to dive into it, but there are a few options...

1) Actual native filePro over a VPN, in which case all your index/key data
which would normally be read on the LAN will go over the WAN via the VPN.
This will impact speed; the degree to which it alters the speed depends
upon the network bandwidth available.  However, in cases where you may be
reading a whole 2GB (or more in 5.6+) file -plus- index data in order to
run a full report are going to be painful even on 300mbit connections.  Not
recommended.

2) RDP of some sort.  I personally find RDP to be a very inefficient way to
work, and even the best RDP software out there is prone to occasional
redraw issues.  I don't recommend this for anything but casual or
periodic-of-necessity work.

There is no way I can see of working remotely on native Windows filePro
which is actually ideal.  I would never recommend it being adopted as the
primary model.  RDP once in a while is fine, but as the mainstay, no.

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