Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Architecture Questions

[Rob Scott]

--- Imran Ghory <address@hidden> wrote: > 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
> 
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I think the client side varient is the sort of thing
where if the thing grows, we may, say, every year, get
the database, burn it onto a cd (or several), 
distribute it under the GNU(like linux cds are
available from cheapbytes and cheeplinux), put the
ISOs up on the website etc.
And this would be a great thing for schools where it
costs nothing and is on a cd and the school doesnt
even have to pay for an internet connection.

I dont think banners are a good idea, i think we want
to make the system VERY anti-commercial (or just
non-commercial if you think compaq's monitoring your
connection right now;))

bob


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