Re: website design

Hello,

Command Prompt would be willing to assist at multiple levels with this.

Francisco Reyes wrote:

>On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
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>>Eekk.. good point. back to the drawing board..
>>
>>Could we get a list of folks that would be willing to run a replicated
>>server,
>>make them into a "server pool" and get the mirrors to connect to them..
>>
>>I'm not sure if that would be a great solution, cause i'm not sure if most
>>of the traffic is because of images, static code, or whatever would be
>>coming
>>from the database...
>>
>>I guess at the very least it's still good for discussion.
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>It would also be a great test case and learning experience of distributed
>databases and replication.
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>I would be very interested in further discussion along these lines.
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>I don't know about the existing site but perhaps we could split the
>mirrors on DB mirrors and www mirrors. The list visible to users will only
>list www mirrors.
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>We could have two DNS entries. One fixed to the main DB site and another
>to a round robbin list of DB mirrors. The web site programs could try to
>connect to the round robbin DBs first and if that fails then go to the
>main site.
>
>We could even have configuration files so mirror sites could
>perhaps specify a preferred DB mirror and then the site would try the
>preferred first, then the round robbin and then the primary site.
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