Re: Web site

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Gavin Sherry wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> It occurs to me that opening web page on www.postgresql.org, asking the
> user to select the mirror, is rather unprofessional. I am sure this has
> been discussed before but I thought I would bring it up again anyway.

Already being worked on ...

> So, why not just redirect people to one of the mirrors listed? This
> could be done based on IP (yes it is inaccurate but it is close enough
> and has the same net effect: pushing people off the main web server) or
> it could be done by simply redirecting to a random mirror.

Have tried both in the past with disastrous results ...