The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #72635   Message #1252929
Posted By: GUEST,Jon
21-Aug-04 - 01:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: All alone here in Mudcat
Subject: RE: BS: All alone here in Mudcat
No Judy. I'm saying that there are currently 2 working copies of the Mudcat forum for users that access the same database.

I don't know the exact configuration but it won't be too dissimilar to the one I use for folkinfo. In that case, 3 machines are involved. The database server is a machine on it's own. On top of that, folkinfo and jonbanjo happen to be on different machines. That is how I can provide a back door to folkinfo using jonbanjo.com/folkinfo. If the server folkinfo is on crashes, odds are jonbanjo.com maybe running or visa versa.

Short of both web servers going down, the most likely thing to stop me is the database server crashing as both copies of the forum depend on it. I keep the annexe running on an Acess database on jonbanjo rather than use the mySQL database on the database server as that increases my odds of at least having one of my 2 forums (ie Annexe and folkinfo) available.

It's not perfect but the best I can come up with on my budget.

Jon