[clue-admin] Future Web Site

[David L. Willson]

DNS round-robin is what I was talking about. It would be NOT be the first step. To re-iterate what I think is a good time-flow: 

    1. Somebod(y|ies) shows off a new, shiny CLUE website. 
    2. CLUE loves it, and Dennis or Dave updates the A records to point to it. 
    3. Somebod(y|ies) says, "Hey, that's pretty, but it's failure prone!" 
    4. Somebod(y|ies) copy everything to their additional server(s), as a backup. 
    5. We test, check, and configure the data-flows to keep the additional server(s) up-to-date. We have reasonable convergence times between nodes in this ghetto cluster. 
    6. We add (an) A record(s), so the servers are "load-balanced". 

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Everyone has one Heck of a lot of fun solving the problems in 5. We publish our findings for others to use. 

    1. 
A box goes down, or somebody rage-quits.     2. We remove that A record, call for ghetto hosting volunteers, they update, and we add A records. 
David L. Willson 
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----- Original Message -----

> Alright, now you guys have me curious. How would a distributed site
> work?

> Yesterday Dave was talking about distribution via git. This is easy
> enough to implement and git is a pretty well documented version
> control system. I use git to handle all my AVR code for my lasertag
> project. My concern is, if we have X amount of people hosting the
> site and an update is released via git, how do we guarantee that the
> latest version is pushed out to all sites? Do we even care?

> If it is just a static site, this is an easy task and a DNS round
> robin works well enough. I would suggest setting a low TTL on the
> DNS records so downed hosts can be purged and quickly removed from
> the round robin.

> Of course updates to the site would be done in the current CMS
> system, which sounds more like a theme/framework than a true CMS.
> This of course is a higher barrier of entry than something like
> Drupal.

> Dan Kulinski

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