Re: New site - minor problem

From: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: "John Hansen" <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Gavin M(dot) Roy" <gmr(at)ehpg(dot)net>, <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: New site - minor problem
Date: 2004-12-06 22:15:44
Message-ID: E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E4527D35@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hansen [mailto:john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au]
> Sent: 06 December 2004 22:09
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Joshua D. Drake; Gavin M. Roy; pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
> 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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