Hi Dmitry,

The short answer is that won't work. When you execute from the shared folder, the EXE actually executes on your machine, not on the server. That's for starters. It gets worse from there. All the cursors get pulled down to the local machine. Etc., etc.

TSClient is your best bet in terms of price.

Hank

>Thank you for your message, Hank.
>
>Currently the application is used with a shortcut on a client desktop pointing to the executable on the shared folder on the server. I don't know if the same approach is possible if the executable is on the server in the Cloud.
>Typically, no more than 5-6 clients access the application. The application is using SQL Server that - I thought - would reside on the server in the cloud too. And there is also a web application (asp.net) that runs on the server too.
>
>>Hi Dmitry,
>>
>>How do you plan to have your clients access the application? How many clients? During a recent real-life DR we put TSClient on a !&1 box with 8GB, etc., and SQL Server. It looked like it might work for up to 10 clients -- we got out co-lo back up about 5 hours before switchover. Our test was with VMWare underneath (the new standard at 1&1). If you are using VFP tables, or perhaps if using PostGreSQL, you might get more clients on and still have sufficient performance. Having more than 3 clients per core (-1 for the OS) usually does not work out well, from our hosting experience. Our app is a very busy app, due to pretty near 4th Normal Form with a lot of tables, so the numbers I mention should be take as worst case.
>>
>>Hank
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I am looking for a way to deploy the VFP Windows application in the cloud. A friend suggested to check the VPS Cloud https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-cloud.xml
>>>Anyone used it for deploying VFP Windows app?