[volunteergrid2-l] Revisiting - Gateway round-robin

[Brad Rupp]

I forgot to answer the actual discussion in this e-mail.

It would be really simple to write a PHP script that does this.  I could 
do it on the new node I set up this past week.  Thoughts?

Brad


On 7/4/2011 10:52 AM, Jody Harris wrote:
> We had discussed have a redirector set up that would send URL requests
> to the different gateway servers so such one member wouldn't have to
> bear the full burden of the bandwidth.
>
> Well, I remember having a discussion. If there is no evidence of such
> a conversation in the archives, I will need to talk to my doctor about
> some medication for hallucinations. ;-)
>
> j
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> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Brad Rupp<bradrupp at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Jody,
>>
>> I must be losing it.  I don't remember a discussion on gateway round-robin.
>>   Can you refresh my mind?  Assuming that you mean to round-robin access to
>> the various gateways, couldn't we just use DNS round-robin?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> On 7/2/2011 7:41 PM, Jody Harris wrote:
>>>
>>> With the addition of 3 nodes over the last couple of weeks with a
>>> couple more possible in the next month, I thought I'd toss out the
>>> idea of the gateway round-robin idea we had discussed several months
>>> ago.
>>>
>>> I know that I find solutions to some problems after letting them
>>> simmer on the 'back burner' for a few months. Brad, did any potential
>>> solutions bubble up in the mean time?
>>>
>>> Maybe we can write up the draft of this idea on the wiki so that the
>>> new members and future members will have some foundation for this
>>> discussion.
>>>
>>> j
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