Hi All,
On the occasion of this beginning of the year, I would like to share a recent experience of the migration of two (large) FoxInCloud applications on a Windows 2022 server.
The challenge was twofold:
- Would the power of the server really translate into an acceleration of the application ?
- And, recurring question, would VFP execute fine on this new server ?
The result goes beyond expectations.
- FoxInCloud applications are really faster, providing a high-level of work comfort for users
- VFP runs perfectly on Windows Server 2022. As it is supported by Microsoft until 2031, developers have an additional 9-year delay to migrate the server side code of their FiC applications,while continuing to improve the HTML/CSS/JS user interface.
Best wishes for the new year
Did you update your underlying hardware or VPC instance? I suspect most of the performance gains come from that, not necessarily from using Windows 2022.
I recently upgraded my server as well, and saw a large performance boost, but most of that was due (I think) to the improvements of the VPC platform instances (on Vultr) - a lot of the VPC hosts have upgraded to SSD drives, compared to a few years prior which makes a massive perf difference if you had old instances.
If anybody has old instances on your VPC host you might consider backing up a snapshot, and restoring the snapshot to a new instance. Often that ends up on new hardware that is much faster.
+++ Rick ---