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From: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: projects.postgresql.net
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 12:31:57 -0400 (AST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Dave Page wrote:

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: 02 February 2004 16:17
> > To: Tom Lane
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] projects.postgresql.net
> >
> > On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > > Well, it simplifies things right now.  What about mirroring though?
> > > When the .net area gets large enough to need to be split across
> > > multiple servers, will there be a problem?
> >
> > Good point ... so we need to DNS each project name individually ...
>
> Is it likely to grow that much? I would expect most of the large files
> to be in Gborg in the CVS repo or the downloads areas. How big has Gborg
> got? Also, bear in mind that simple mirroring isn't a problem as 2
> servers may be mirrored and both Ips listed against *.postgresql.net) -
> splitting the sites across 2 or more servers would be more difficult.

actually, not so much ... if we set it up so that sites
[a-m]*.postgresql.net point to IP A, and [n-z]*.postgresql.net point to
IP B ...

But I do agree that the site would have to be quite large to become a
problem ... I can see gborg needing to be spread across two servers first,
since that is where the brunt of the work will be done ...

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: [email protected]           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664




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