Administrator’s Guide

12 FileMaker Web Server Connector Administrator’s Guide
In this configuration, individual databases are spread over several
hosts. Because the databases are not duplicated, your clients can both
read and write to them. This arrangement offers good throughput,
because multiple hosts ease the load that would otherwise be given
to a single host, and can provide a means for some load balancing if
the most active databases are put on separate machines.
Configuration 6: RAIC using FileMaker Server 5 as a
backend host
In this configuration, FileMaker Server 5 hosts all of the databases.
The nodes of the RAIC open the databases as guests of FileMaker
Server 5, sharing through the Web Companion in each copy of
FileMaker Pro Unlimited.
This arrangement offers excellent throughput, because the Web
Server Connector can provide load balancing and fail-over
protection. FileMaker Server 5 also off-loads functions such as
sorting and summary field calculations to guest machines, so these
tasks are handled rapidly. You can read and write to the databases in
this type of RAIC, because each database exists once on the server.
And, you can use the backup and restore features of FileMaker
Server 5, providing you with added data security.
Configuration 7: RAIC using FileMaker Pro as a
backend host
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