Most of us FileMaker developer folks are more process experts than IT specialists, so it's intimidating to think of firing up a terminal screen every time we need to work on our server. Now some of you might be taken aback at the thought of using some geeky command line operating system to deploy your FileMaker custom applications. These are the very factors Claris itself considered when deciding which OS to run its Cloud offerings.

CentOS has such a good reputation because it's inexpensive to deploy, reliable to run, and easy to administrate.

It's used widely by both enterprises and commercial database/web-hosting providers. CentOS is the open-source version of Red Hat branded Linux that Claris supports. Why is having an on-premise version of the server that can be installed on a Linux operating system such a big deal? One big reason is the fact that CentOS is the industry standard for open-source server-based operating systems. We think it was worth the wait because it opens up a lot of deployment options and some administration benefits. This Linux Cloud version wasn't available to the on-premise users but that's no longer the case. Of course, that isn't entirely true because Claris has been using a Linux version of FileMaker Server on all of its Cloud services (both AWS and the current offering) since 2015. FileMaker Server 5.5 was the last of the pre-7 servers and the last of the Linux versions.until now. One of the most remarkable aspects of that release was that it not only ran on Windows and macOS but also on Linux. If you've been around the FileMaker world as long as we have, you remember back when FileMaker Server 5.5 was released.

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