Re: [Bug-gne]various random thoughts

[Arpith Jacob]

Hello,

> So going on Paul's idea of master & slave DB servers,

Simple CGI-Perl is too costly a process, with all the startup time involved.
I guess we need to use mod_perl, with persistent database connections.

> every 12 hours the master replicates the db, the image
> server tarballs the images, and they are then
> transferred over a secure connection to any mirrors.

Transferring images by encrypting them would probably take too many
resources. We could transfer the images insecurely (since there's no harm if
anyone actually takes a look at them), but also transmit an encrypted
CHECKSUM to validate the images.

Arpith