I'll address hosting in another email. My primary offer, knowing the
politics of PgSQL related site hosting, is a closed-source prorpietary
module that should very easily handle the ip to country needs of the
launch. It provides the country as an environment variable, and has
very, very little overhead. It is production stable and currently
handles 20 million plus hits per day for some of my customers.
Gavin
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Gavin M. Roy [mailto:gmr@ehpg.net]
>>Sent: 06 December 2004 16:17
>>To: Dave Page
>>Cc: Alexey Borzov; pgsql-www@postgresql.org
>>Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] New site - minor problem
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>>Two things, I have the resources to host it, and I would be
>>happy to donate my apache module "Paleface IP2C" which can do
>>IP2Country lookups with very little overhead. With it
>>installed there should be very little overhead in IP2Country
>>lookups (read 100's of times faster) than anything else I've
>>played with module, or php based. On a P4-3ghz one can
>>expect lookups in the 0.0007 second range.
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>OK, some questions:
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>1) What backups do you run?
>2) Will we (ie. myself, Marc and Robert) have root access?
>3) I take it a PostgreSQL installation is no problem?
>4) Where do I get back the hours I just spent setting up this server?
>:-)
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>I would also add that I'm not committing to anything at this point, just
>asking the questions. I've also spent too long setting this all up over
>here to be overly enthusiastic to do it all again for the sake of one
>very minor feature. The resources I have are certainly more than enough
>without it, and most likely wouldn't cause problems even with it
>enabled. Like I said, I'm just being cautious.
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>Personally, I would prefer for you to host something larger, such as
>pgFoundry - but we'd need to convince Marc about that one!
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>Regards, Dave
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