Subject: Re: New site - minor problem
From: "Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@ehpg.net>
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Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:14:39 -0800
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As I understand it, the new site will examine the person's ip address
and redirect them to the proper mirror for their country, if available.
The module I am offering will allow this to happen faster with less
overhead than current open source implementations.

Gavin

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 22:01 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
>  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Hansen [mailto:john@geeknet.com.au] 
> > Sent: 06 December 2004 21:55
> > To: Dave Page
> > Cc: Joshua D. Drake; Gavin M. Roy; pgsql-www@postgresql.org
> > Subject: RE: [pgsql-www] New site - minor problem
> > 
> > Maxminds API's are not nescessarily database dependant. I 
> > even think they have an apache module. If not, writing one 
> > would be trivial.
> > 
> > However all these solutions would require mirrors to install 
> > the modules on their servers no? or are we generating the 
> > mirror selection pages statically, customised to the mirror 
> > region? if so, what exactly would the ip2country modules be used for?
> 
> No, that's the point. All the mirrors would be selected on the master
> server, giving a single point of failure. I'm far from convinced that
> it's worth it. The *only* benefit to users is that the flags for their
> country would be shown seperately on the mirror selection pages, saving
> them may 2 seconds to spot their flag in the main grid.
> 
> Regards, Dave.
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