Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Architecture Questions

[Imran Ghory]

On 20 Jan 2001, at 10:39, Bob Dodd wrote:

> 1) Where will our master database live? I'm assuming GNU servers… But
> if our encyclopedia takes off, will GNU survive, or will so many
> "normal" users (as opposed to the limited number of developers who use
> it regularly)  querying the encyclopedia look start to like a denial
> of service attack? :-)) How many hits can it really take? Will we be
> limited to a maximum throughput rate, after which we must
> reject/redirect queries?

Remember that we're aiming at many server, each of which may
well be only having a subset of the hole.

If it goes under a heavy load sponsorship of the server could
become a possibiliy, either by the way of one of the major linux
supporters like VA or IBM, or by banner adverts.


> 5) What web server will we be sitting behind? Apache I assume... What
> feature of that server are we allowed to use? Is there a requiremet to
> maximise client-side work?

Remember after we get a core encyclopedia it might be time to
produce a purely client side variant.

Say we have a a couple of gigs of core data, I imagine that a lot of
users would rather grab a CD then get the data from the website
(faster access).

Imran