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Subject: Re: New site - minor problem
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:01:52 -0000
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Thread-Topic: [pgsql-www] New site - minor problem
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From: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
To: "John Hansen" <john@geeknet.com.au>
Cc: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>,
	"Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@ehpg.net>, <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>

=20

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hansen [mailto:john@geeknet.com.au]=20
> 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
>=20
> Maxminds API's are not nescessarily database dependant. I=20
> even think they have an apache module. If not, writing one=20
> would be trivial.
>=20
> However all these solutions would require mirrors to install=20
> the modules on their servers no? or are we generating the=20
> mirror selection pages statically, customised to the mirror=20
> 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.