[clue-admin] Future Web Site

[David L. Willson]

Raymond, 

I didn't say it was simple. I did say these are the steps, that I think it's do-able, and that it would be hard enough that I'd be interested. 

You think it's too hard or impossible? 

David L. Willson 
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----- Original Message -----

> Folks--

> > 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".
> 

> > • 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.
> 

> If only it was that simple. :) Please, one of the drupalers, let
> David know why it won't work that easily.

> ( Hint: This is a test of the drupal fans to show off that they
> really know/understand their chosen software. )

> Raymond

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