Thanks to everyone who contributed with wise & useful advices both on and offline. I still have a couple of questions & comments though.
A few years ago, when I had the metacard engine installed on a dedicated server, the way it worked was that a new instance of the engine would launch for every incoming request, and would quit once the task was completed. This was ok for the kind of site I was working on : low-trafic site with complex tasks for each request. Is is the same with LC server ? And is there a risk for the server to choke if too many instances launch simultaneously, or is there a way to tell Apache to queue the requests somehow ? And another thing I've been wondering : does the service on-rev offers differ from the above ? Is it simply a hosting service with an LC engine, or some more sophisticated thing, like a long-running version of the engine that could handle many requests simultaneously and faster ? As for installing my own server on a VPS, it is tempting, providing I can find the time to learn how to, being almost a complete newbie regarding server administration. Furthermore, I think it makes sense when you build your own project from scratch, but we're talking about transfering an already existing architecture of various sites and apps, with various add-ons & subdomains & cron jobs... Last but not least, I will feel more confortable knowing my clients' most sensitive data & DBs are on a dedicated server located somewhere in europe than wandering somewhere in the cloud... jbv _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
