Remoting over the web.
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Skeeboe posted on Sunday, October 15, 2006
We've been running our apps in a non remoting environment for many years now. We are looking into having some of our customers run the winforms gui on their machines and connect to our server for the data. This gives us many benefits; they don't have to purchase a server machine, we perform backups, etc.
We've been adjusting our exe's with threading and the response times are great using remoting. (This is turn has helped our non remoting users experience a much more responsive UI as well). We've been using http and https for testing and all looks well.
Before we put more customers on remoting I'm wondering what the best connectivity options are. Should we stay http and force them to use a VPN? (We'd be forced to drop some hardware on their network). Should we use https? How many users can run off one machine in that mode? (I know that is a broad question) Should we look at SSL/compression hardware to take the load off the server? Should we start with the sql server on one machine and iis on the another?
Is anyone else doing this and what issues have you run into?
eslater replied on Sunday, October 15, 2006
I have been running two apps in a remoting environment for quite some time. Neither app is particularly heavily used so I cant comment too much about load. We have been running both apps on boxes that contain both sql and iis without any problem. Eventually we will be moving sql onto its own box but until usage dictates it the app runs faster with both on the same box.
I found using VPN slower. I also found it slower when connecting directly to SQL over the internet. The best overall performance was running the app through iis using remoting.
I have not used https so I cant help much there.
Elliot
Skeeboe replied on Sunday, October 15, 2006
I'll have to use some type of encryption SSL(Https) or VPN because of the data. I'm testing with http but I've changed all personal info to fake data. I'm pleased with the response rates but there is no load yet...
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