<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/13/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Cees de Groot</b> <<a href="mailto:cg@cdegroot.com">cg@cdegroot.com</a>> wrote:</span><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In all seriousness: SqueakSource is an extremely important resource, but<br>right now too unreliable for regular use - if the proxy isn't down, then<br>the server itself is overloaded or otherwise unavailable.</blockquote>
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</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">This probably means that SqueakSource - at least the MC part - needs to be<br>replicatable. Something with my P2P code does mostly automagically. The
<br>end result could be that <a href="http://www.squeaksource.com">www.squeaksource.com</a> points to a list of A<br>records, each with a SqueakSource instance. DNS round-robin will take care<br>of load balancing, the P2P networking code beneath each SqueakSource
<br>instance would make sure that what you upload in anyone instance would be<br>shortly available somewhere else.<br><br>Could that be a workable setup?</blockquote><div><br>
I'd be for it. For the record, I think the only contibution I
have here is I own the DNS and A records for
<a href="http://www.squeaksource.com">www.squeaksource.com</a>. I'd be happy to either enter additional A
records to other squeak sources should the P2P networking be baked into
SqueakSource.<br>
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Also, I also run my own SqueakSource, mostly because I keep my code
backed up and not primarily because <a href="http://kilana.unibe.ch">kilana.unibe.ch</a> or my dang proxy
keeps going on the fritz. I believe the public SqueakSource web
site says you are on your own to ensure you have backups, so putting
all my eggs in one basket doesn't sound too appealing to me.
Having multiple replicas of SqueakSource could alleviate that concern a
bit if I understood the architecture (i.e. some replication
technologies have been know to correctly replicate mass deletions too).<br>
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Regards,<br>
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John<br>
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