Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Dave Page wrote:

> >
> > On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Dave Page wrote:
> >
> > > > On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Justin Clift wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > > > > So, who is holding the ball to get this live?  Justin? *raised
> > > > > > eyebrow*
> > > > >
> > > > >  From memory, it's a Vince + Dave thing to make it live.
> > > >
> > > > I had asked a question about doing a wget to grab the staticly
> > > > generated pages and I don't recall what the answer was -
> > seems I got
> > > > conflicting answers.  Since it's a Vince and Dave thing,
> > Dave?  Will
> > > > that work?
> > >
> > > Yes, I think so, but the we're relying on 2 machines of course.
> >
> > Rudendency?
>
> [moved on list, CC trimmed]
>
> Having one machine that can access the database and build the pages, and
> another to serve them is 'redundancy' how exactly?

One machine fails, the other can pick it up.  It also makes it possible
for folks to work on it and check out the end product without it going
live.

Vince.
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