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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: John Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: Gavin M. Roy <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: New site - minor problem
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:15:44 -0000
Message-ID: <E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E4527D35@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk> (raw)

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hansen [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 06 December 2004 22:09
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Joshua D. Drake; Gavin M. Roy; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [pgsql-www] New site - minor problem
> 
> > 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.
> 
> In that case I vote to send that idea to the trash can..... :)
> 
> Unless mirrors are prepared to perform the ip2ccode lokups...

No, we keep them pure HTML for simplicity.

> Single point of failure kinda defeats the purpose I reckon.

Yup, my feelings precisely.

/D




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