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Date:      Fri, 6 Aug 1999 12:41:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Jim Mock <jim@blues.ghis.net>, advocacy@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: followup: advocacy.freebsd.org (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908061240130.45391-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990806112413.A38499@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>

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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.

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