Non-profit discounts are available, but the concurrent connection limit is extremely restrictive. If you have 5 connections and one person opens 5 tabs to your site, that’s it, all of your connections are being used and when one is released it takes 90 seconds before it becomes available for another person.

I can see how this might make sense for a site where access is limited to members of a small team, but I don’t see any use for CWP in the world at large — even the unlimited version is not guaranteed to handle more that 50 concurrent connections.

But perhaps I have misunderstood some essential point…

AB

> On 15 mars 2015, at 19:22, Jonathan Fletcher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Absolutely agree with Richard here (except for insisting that non-profits have no money). 
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> Now might be a really good time to learn CWP and let your web solutions really take wing.
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> Jonathan
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> On Mar 15, 2015, at 11:10 AM, "Richard S. Russell" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> However, there are cost considerations. When FMI finally departed from the “.fp7” file format (an incredibly robust workhorse that had served us all well thru Versions 7, 8, 8.5, 9, 10, and 11), it also abandoned the idea that you could do web publishing directly out of plain-vanilla FMP. Beginning with the “.fmp12” file format, you needed to go to the more expensive FileMaker Server to get that capability. (And, by “that capability”, I mean “the considerably more powerful WebDirect instead of the older, simpler, and increasingly out-of-date Instant Web Publishing”.)
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>> A copy of stand-alone FMP is $329. A copy of FMP Server with 0 connections is $1,044. But, of course, the whole point of web publishing is that you’re gonna want connections, so the least you’re looking at is Server + 5 connections for $1,944. That $1,600 bump is probably not an obstacle for even a small business, but it looms large for the kind of non-profit organizations I do most of my development for. And it may for Gary as well.
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>> But sooner or later, Gary, you’re gonna have to bite that bullet. IWP is already on its last legs of being able to work with the web browsers of 2015, and if I were you I wouldn’t be investing any more of my time in something that’s doomed to irrelevance in the next several years.
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