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Act for web architecture.

Asked by heathcote123 in CRM Software

Tags: bandwidth

I have a client that is currently running act professional for workgroups for a network of circa 15 users.

The client wishes to expand this usage to a network of european offices - 5 or 6 offices encompassing a total of around 30 users.

The solution currently being touted if the act for web add-on, which seems to make sense.

The main office is currently using a 2mb down 512k up adsl line, which also does email etc, so will be woefully inadequate. As reliability and availabilty is topmost of our priorities, we think that we have two main choices.

1. A 2 meg leased line, running the web server directly from the office.
2. Hosting the web server at our ISP. And  a 2 meg leased line for the office.

this leaves a number of questions

Is a 2 meg line going to give a good user experience for 20-30 concurrent users?

If we go with web hosting remotely, the client is suggesting that the database is kept at the office so that the local users can still run the full client @ full speed, and just the web page generation is done at the ISP -

My thoughts (and I am no act expert) are that this may create a bottleneck between the ISP and office - and would prefer to stick the whole lot at the ISP. Am I correct in my thinking? - is it the the actual page generation & serving or the databse queries/replies that would use the most bandwidth.



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