My vote is for a virtual machine, hosting the whole environment, that only
you have access to login to.



On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 10:34 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Nov 6, 1:18 am, WebbedIT <[email protected]> wrote:
> > But as I said in my earlier post, could you not place in the remotely
> > hosted application a call to your servers to check for a valid
> > license?  I know a lot of games are now going this way where you have
> > to be online to be able to play them as the game polls there servers
> > to check your have a valid license.
>
> Well if you give access to source anyone can bypass the check quite
> easily. In fact no license checking has stopped unwanted use of
> software (games included).
>
> The only way to not worry is if you have a self controlled API based
> service that your client code will be depending upon. Then you can
> check for the license validity in your trusted server and if it's
> expired or illegal you just block access so the client side is
> useless.
>
> I have used a couple of zen encrypted applications, it's not always
> that easy to set up in the server environment for all the PHP/zen
> versions available. The question is whether your application is
> "costing" more than the cost of encrypting/setting up.
>
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