RE: local search support

Exactly like Shimi said. I was talking about random mirror distribution only for searching among the sites that offer local mirror support. (The query search will be executed by the site but the link to the result will be back to the original site just like it used to be) If a local mirror exists in a country lookup will be made by it. If not then a random mirror will be chosen (or maybe just a USA mirror which might be faster for everybody else) Spyros -----Original Message----- From: shimi [mailto:shimi@shimi.net] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 2:59 PM To: Divyank Turakhia Cc: php-mirrors@lists.php.net Subject: 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