>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I am setting up a site in Amazon Web Services to sell our VFP application as SAAS following on the footsteps of several developers that I met at South West Fox.
>>>
>>>It is not a web site but an arrangement in the cloud to run a VFP app in virtual machines to which users connect to using remote desktop.
>>>
>>>This is what we are setting up:
>>>- A VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) to tie it all together
>>>- An EFS (Elastic File System) as file server
>>>- An Active Directory to control user rights
>>>- A number of EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances in which our customers will run our application
>>>
>>>We also plan to install a Remote Desktop Connection gateway so users can be given a single IP address to connect to our site, followed by a load balancer that will assign an available EC2 instance to the user.
>>>Naturally we also need to provide good security, fail over arrangements and good backups.
>>>
>>>There are *many* things that need to be setup and configured but it isn't a completely foreign process. I'm sharing the experience in case it may help someone else.
>>>
>>>Alex
>>
>>Hi Alex,
>>
>>Thank you for sharing this information. I have been thinking about the same approach of selling my software as a service via a Server in the cloud. But never actually got to "doing it". If you don't mind a couple of questions:
>>1. What company do you use for setting up a server in the cloud? I understand it is not Amazon but not clear which is it.
>>2. What are the rough costs of setting up this server?
>>
>>Thank you, again.
>
>Hi Dmitri,
>
>After talking to a couple of VFP developers who have set up in AWS I am setting it up myself. I want to gain the knowledge and would gladly hire a coach.
>
>Lets keep in touch and help each other
>
>Alex

Thank you, Alex. Yes, it would be great to work on this cooperatively. If you see any task that you don't have time and I can do, please PM me.