[thelist] Spreading sites between different hosts
Scott Dexter
sgd at ti3.com
Fri Aug 25 10:38:31 CDT 2000
> (1)
> Ignoring the different speeds of response between different
> servers through
> traffic etc,would there be a time penalty if a page were
> designed to have
> ten gifs with each of the gifs located on a different servers
> (i.e. ten
> gifs and eleven servers)?
ignoring the different response times, there will be no difference.
>
> (2)
> Would there be a time penalty if items included in a Web page
> were accessed
> from several different databases on different servers from
> that holding the
> Web page (assuming all the databases were equally fast)
I think you should be seeing a pattern here. The network is the limiting
factor. That's it.
>
> (3) If a cgi script updated the visitor counter on a Web
> page, would there
> be a time penalty if that cgi script was on another server?
this one merits details. but is being done in the wild (companies like
http://beseen.com, for example)
sgd
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