From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Aug 6 10:40:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95E51569D; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 10:40:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 341381C09; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 12:41:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B0F3813; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 12:41:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 12:41:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola To: Nik Clayton Cc: Jim Mock , advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: followup: advocacy.freebsd.org (fwd) In-Reply-To: <19990806112413.A38499@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > Note that simply having the mirrors pull the content off the central > database is not, IMHO, acceptable. This removes most of the advantages > of mirroring the site, as we then have (a) a single point of failure > that can bring down all the mirrors, and (b) the page will still only > appear as fast as the connection between the mirror site and the > central database. This completely destroys the usefulness of the > mirrors. Good DBAs address these problems with replication. -- - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message