Posted by Andy Jeffries on 04/13/06 18:33

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 01:42:45 -0700, fletch wrote:
> It is much more efficient to let the webserver deliver images directly,
> and as I see it, there is no _good_ reason not to go that route.

What about situations where there are multiple front-end web servers
connecting to multiple database servers.

You don't really want to allow users to upload images (profiles, forums,
etc) in to a folder on one of the machines (whichever one of the farm they
happen to connect to for the upload process) and then have to sync between
every server to every other server every few minutes.

Of course, shared storage (NFS etc) is another way of getting the same
goal, but multiple DBs may be more fault tolerant.

Cheers,


Andy

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