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Subject: Re: Counting clicks, Download page?
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:48:55 -0000
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Thread-Topic: [pgsql-www] Counting clicks, Download page?
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From: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
To: "Alexey Borzov" <borz_off@cs.msu.su>
Cc: <josh@agliodbs.com>, <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexey Borzov [mailto:borz_off@cs.msu.su]=20
> Sent: 22 November 2004 11:00
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: josh@agliodbs.com; pgsql-www@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Counting clicks, Download page?
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> Hi,
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> Dave Page wrote:
> > Nope, not as it stands. Virtually everything is static HTML=20
> now for speed and mirror-ability. If you want to log ftp=20
> mirror selections, then it'll need to go back to being a php=20
> script on one server, giving us a single point of failure on=20
> perhaps the second most important part of the site (next to=20
> the front page).
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> In fact the mirror selection page now *should* be a dynamic=20
> page on one server only (and that's the main reason I am so=20
> concerned about that server's performance).

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

>  In any other case=20
> 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=20
> any useful
> stats: it will only show how many people went to an FTP=20
> mirror, not whether they actually downloaded something.

Agreed.

Regards, Dave.