wallaby
11-27-2001, 10:14 AM
Anyone with a Linux Dedicated server (NOT a Cobalt RAQ) got InterBase loaded and offering it to hosting clients? Either the open source version from Borland, or the Firebird version (firebirdsql.org)?
We get regular requests for it but I've been wary because I don't want servers to get swamped by it. Hence would be interested in anyone else's experience on resource use, stability, how easy it is to administer as a shared hosting resource, etc.
Allied to this: how difficult is it exactly to have a separate server which is used only for database serving (say using InterBase)? For example, how would people with websites on the "web server" call their databases on the "database server" (assuming they are both in the same NOC) to ensure that calls do not have to go out of the NOC over the internet and back in again? -- any kind of special linking that the guys at the NOC would have to do?
We get regular requests for it but I've been wary because I don't want servers to get swamped by it. Hence would be interested in anyone else's experience on resource use, stability, how easy it is to administer as a shared hosting resource, etc.
Allied to this: how difficult is it exactly to have a separate server which is used only for database serving (say using InterBase)? For example, how would people with websites on the "web server" call their databases on the "database server" (assuming they are both in the same NOC) to ensure that calls do not have to go out of the NOC over the internet and back in again? -- any kind of special linking that the guys at the NOC would have to do?