Re: Re: 1 web site, 3 servers, 3 countries - best practises?

Richard Davey wrote:

Hello Satyam, Thursday, April 21, 2005, 5:07:52 PM, you wrote: S> My domain, satyam.com.ar, though supposedly in Argentina resides in Spain, S> where I currently live hundreds of kilometers away from it, which I mention S> to point out that domain names do not correlate to physical locations. S> Unless there is a political issue regarding who owns the actual machine and S> budgeting problems, I would rather keep just one server farm fed from S> multiple international locations. No offense, but that entire post was completely useless with regards to my original message.

in a round about way he seems to be asking 'why'? which is not totally invalid.

This is nothing to do with domain names, I was simply asking if anyone had experience of handling one site spread across multiple remote located servers from a PHP/SQL perspective (syncing content, user accounts, etc).

I don't have any answers, but maybe some questions might be useful: do you want/need a master/slave configuration or true decentralisation and/or two way syncing? what definition of 'seamless' have you been given? what kind of content? sounds like a costly undertaking, not to be taken lightly... I'm interested to understand the requirement that dictates such server redundancy. Given the implied cost, planning/implementation should probably left to a company who already knows the answers to your questions :-/? anyway interesting problem you have before you!

Best regards, Richard Davey