At 12:07 AM 11/26/00 -0500, Alain Toussaint wrote:
>how about having a middle man between apache (or aolserver or any other
>clients...) and PosgreSQL ??
>
>that middleman could be configured to have 16 persistant connections,every
>clients would deal with the middleman instead of going direct to the
>database,this would be an advantage where multiple PostgreSQL server are
>used...
Well, this is sort of what AOLserver does for you without any need for
middlemen.
Again, reading stuff like this makes me think "ugh!"
This stuff is really pretty easy, it's amazing to me that the Apache/db
world talks about such kludges when they're clearly not necessary.
My first experience running a website (donb.photo.net) was with Apache
on Linux on an old P100 system in 1996 when few folks had personal photo
sites with >1000 photos on them getting thousands of hits a day. I have
fond memories of those days, and Apache served me (or more properly webserved
my website) well. This site is largely responsible for my reputation that
lets me freelance nature photography to the national media market pretty
much at will. Thus my fondness.
But ... for database stuff the release of AOLserver as first Free Beer,
and now Free Speech software has caused me to abandon Apache and suggestions
like the above just make me cringe.
It shouldn't be that hard, folks.
- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza@pacifier.com> Nature photos, on-line guides, Pacific Northwest Rare Bird Alert
Serviceand other goodies at http://donb.photo.net.
