Hosting filePro off-site

[neroni3000 at comcast.net]

Thanks for the reply
Yes, this is a Windows based server, the client is moving to a new office and wants to, in his words, "get out of the IT business".
Which I interpret as meaning he no longer wants to have an in-house server and local area network, be responsible for backups, security, and all of that.
My concern is that we interface filePro with third party products like Printwizard, Sage Accounting, 1099Fire, and so forth.  These systems mostly run on the individual workstations, not the server.  I worry that it would create operational problems if they only run on the server in a remotely hosted situation.
I guess we could access the remote server using remote desktop, but how many people could access it simultaneously that way?

Del   
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From: "Fairlight via Filepro-list" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
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Subject: Re: Hosting filePro off-site

One accesses it via ssh, for *nix-based systems.  That would be the idiom I
would recommend.  You could use AnzioWin if you need pass-through printing,
or PuTTY if you don't.  All processing and program execution is done on the
hosting server in this scenario, with only screen draws (and any
pass-through printing) going to the remote terminal.

Windows...is going to be a headache for remote access.  You'd be looking
at a few possible different ways of handling it, none of them nearly
as pretty.  It's not pretty.  I would give a strong warn-off for this
solution.

mark->

On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 06:32:31PM +0000, Delmont Neroni via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> If you run filePro on a remotely hosted server, how do you access it? 
> Does it then still work as a client/server system, in which filePro 
> programs download to your workstation and then read and write 
> data to the server Or is all the processing done at the server level, 
> and your workstation just gets the results through displays 
> and pass through printing? 
> Sorry I can't ask the question more intelligently, but I'm sure you 
> understand what I am asking. 
> 
> Del neroni 
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