Fred K Ollinger on Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:30:06 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] internal web app over VPN


There are also remote X versions available for windows, some are
commercial and are supposed to be quite nice and fast. I have not used
them.

Fred Ollinger (follinge@sas.upenn.edu)
CCN sysadmin

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Wayne Dawson wrote:

> Hi.  I am working on a project that will connect two offices via
> VPN.  There will be a database back end in one of the offices with a
> database front end in each office (several users in each office; with two
> different front end designs, one design for each office).
>
> The database itself will be PostgreSQL running on Red Hat 8.0, but all the
> client machines will probably be running WindowsXP.  We have been planning
> on using web browsers for the user interface (probably served from
> Apache/PHP on a Red Hat 8.0 machine located in the same office with the DB
> server), but we can use C++ if it will make a big difference.  We can
> certainly use JavaScript or even Java applets, or maybe XML, or whatever
> else makes sense.
>
> My questions relate to the VPN slowing down the application.
> - Will having web traffic going over the VPN significantly slow down the
> application?
> - What is the best way to minimize how much the VPN slows down the application?
>
> We want to avoid having a web server in the remote office (the one remote
> from where the database back end resides).
>
> I would much appreciate any insights or information sources anybody here
> can give.
>
> Thanks,
> Wayne Dawson
>
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