[thelist] Spreading sites between different hosts

[Scott Dexter]

> (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