Run 50% of Application on Central Server?

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Hi,

I'm interested in having an application developed to sell to individuals - however, I'm concerned about licensing and unauthorised use of the software. I saw somewhere a mention of running 50% of the application online - and given the nature of the software, active users will always be online. Or maybe even 100% online?

The program is pretty simple, just looking data from 1400 lines of excel, 8 cells wide.

I'm no programmer, but I'm just wondering if I would need my own server to run the application or if I could run it initially from a shared hosting account?

Many thanks in advance,

Ted
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  • Why not just host the whole thing online, and sell memberships? It seems to me this would be less complicated.

    As far as the shared host thing, I doubt that would work if you really did split your application in two. In that case, you probably need more control over the server than a shared host would allow. If you hosted the whole thing online it would probably be fine, however.
  • before building an application... have you checked to see if people will pay you money for your product?

    If there is a market for your product, then develop the membership site. You will save a lot of money compared to developing and then marketing
  • You might be able to work something out like that using Azure for example. It sounds like you are basically talking the traditional client/server style.
  • yes, web application would be good & easy to update.

    you could either charge for a monthly memberships and/or for Pay-as-you-go model.

    I am assuming that you've got some nice formulas in that excel .. with multiple sheets.

    You'll need somebody to transfer the logic from the excel into a web app.

    If you know that it's going to be big you could hire somebody to do it in Java or Python and set it up with Google App Engine
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    Run 50% of Application on Central Server?

    Hi, I'm interested in having an application developed to sell to individuals - however, I'm concerned about licensing and unauthorised use of the software. I saw somewhere a mention of running 50% of the application online - and given the nature of the software, active users will always be online. Or maybe even 100% online?