title: experiences with firebird server over the internet with multiple clients?
body: <p>Has somebody real experience with firebird databases over the internet?</p>
  
  <p>I have a typical windows accounting/ERP software (done with delphi) that works with the firebird database server pretty well.. Now my users (300 aprox. now, but should increment) also want to work "in the cloud" (connecting from the office, from the laptop, from the house, etc.). It is a lot of work of recreating everything to a standard web application (let's say for example, HTML+CSS+JS+PHP+MYSQL), so I'm considering keeping the win client (I don't care about other OSes) but instead of the server living in the clients LANs moving it to a pair of dedicated servers that I will contract (one primary and one secondary againts failures for starting).</p>
  
  <p>Searching I've come across this faq <a href="http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq53/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq53/</a> that explains that the fb protocol it isn't ideal for working in the internet, but still all my users today have at least a 1MBbit/sec ADSL internet connection (I don't think that to be slow as the faq denotes).</p>
  
  <p>Somebody have done this? what was the experience? how secure are fb servers for being open to the internet? how well they scale?</p>
  
  <p>I know that building a "middleware" with SOAP for example will be more normal, but still the solution I'm evaluating here is much more fast and easy (still I have some work with the replication, backup, hearbreath services, but it's much less than redoing everything for the web).</p>
  
  <p>Thanks! Edit: FB version: 2.5.</p>