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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Alexey Borzov <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Counting clicks, Download page?
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:48:55 -0000
Message-ID: <E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E43072A5@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk> (raw)

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexey Borzov [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 22 November 2004 11:00
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Counting clicks, Download page?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Dave Page wrote:
> > Nope, not as it stands. Virtually everything is static HTML 
> now for speed and mirror-ability. If you want to log ftp 
> mirror selections, then it'll need to go back to being a php 
> script on one server, giving us a single point of failure on 
> perhaps the second most important part of the site (next to 
> the front page).
> 
> In fact the mirror selection page now *should* be a dynamic 
> page on one server only (and that's the main reason I am so 
> concerned about that server's performance).

Don't worry about that - it's in hand.

>  In any other case 
> you'll *not* be able to use ip2country.

As I vaguely seem to recall stating at the time it was implemented. It's
only a minor convenience thing (seeing as most ppl know their own
country), and puts both load on the server, and creates a single point
of failure.

> But current implementation of mirror selection will not give 
> any useful
> stats: it will only show how many people went to an FTP 
> mirror, not whether they actually downloaded something.

Agreed.

Regards, Dave.

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