RE: local search support

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Divyank Turakhia wrote: > ) Distributing the search / visitors to random mirrors may not be such a > great thing to do. In a good number of circumstances, it is bound to > give real slow speeds to visitors. For example, We had deployed a set of > application servers in our Indian Datacenter. This application was > accessed by thousands of customers across the globe. In general we had > no speed issues for visitors from India and the US. But visitors from > other countries used to complain quite a bit about the speed factor due > to which we had to shift this set of servers to the US. By complain > quite a bit, I mean - QUITE A BIT. This is because the India has > international connectivity to the US only. I think a similar situation > exists for many other countries. > > If the current situation has gotten out of hand then this solution can > be implemented as a temporary hack. But doing this on a permanent basis > is not such a good idea. The redirection is not to a random mirror, but to a local country mirror, based on your DB, Divyank... - Shimi