[Newbie] Cloud database on VB6

[jedifuk]

great scott..thank you very much

By the way, for part 1. can you provide clearer example. what host/website/etc that can provide cloud database mdb/accdb ??
i read before for this : www.xeround.com ?
can you give me more basic explanation for part 1.. i dont think you refer to IIS or public IP some sort like that ...right ??

[Schmidt]

By the way, for part 1. can you provide clearer example. what host/website/etc that can provide cloud database mdb/accdb ??

With the approach in #1, we do talk about a "cloud-service in the classical sense"
(a normal "WebService", hosted on a normal "WebServer", on a Serverfarm of a normal "InternetProvider").

The term "cloud" is only an overhyped buzzword with "all kind of meanings" these days.

"Cloud" (in the plain technical sense) is only an:
- "accumulation of known web-technologies" (as they are provided by normal InetHosters as well)
- often under the umbrella of a larger company (which wants to bind you to their own service-contracts and APIs)

The one thing, which needs to exist in a *real* cloud-service is: Scalability.
(in terms of a "flexible pricing-model", which allows you to "throw more hardware at the problem with a simple contract-expansion")

Some of the above mentioned "normal Providers" don't allow such a contract-boost-up in an easy way
(in case your normal Web-solution starts getting too slow for your "much increased customer-base").

Ok - to be fair - "real cloud-providers" offer also better failover-mechanisms and a better (smaller)
"average down-time per year" than the normal WebServer-contracts of normal InetProviders (although
some normal contracts were getting much better in this regard lately).

can you give me more basic explanation for part 1.. i dont think you refer to IIS or public IP some sort like that ...right ??

The example above (assuming that it worked for you) is based on #1...

And this is a normal contract from 1und1 (a german Inet-provider - they also have international offers I think, then under the '1and1' label).
- it's normal Windows-Hosting
- running an IIS as the WebServer
- supporting "classic ASP", which answered the request in the above example (although ASP.Net is also available)
- the contract has "unlimited Traffic and unlimited WebSpace" (on an SSD-based SAN)
- and runs on a shared VM which is powered by Intel-XEONs (whereas the cheaper worker-roles in MS-Azure run on slow Intel-Atoms)
- there's automatic serverside Backups taking place (mirroring to another Serverpark in a different location)
- the 10Euro per month do also include a single SSL-certificate (which you need for secure https-connections)
- upgrade-options to the (more expensive) "1and1 real cloud-services" do exist on this contract

Not trying to advertise 1and1 here - there's comparable offers also from a lot of other providers -
I mentioned it only with regards to: "what exactly does work well for you"...

Olaf