Hey Samuel, On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:32:48AM +0100, samuel alba wrote: > I am new to CouchDB and I'd like to know if it's possible to deploy CouchDB > over different servers over the world to share the same database. Is it > efficient and could it be secured (I saw CouchDB supports ssl). I guess > CouchDB was originally designed to distribute a database over a datacenter or > in a local network.
You can tunnel CouchDB over SSL or any other secure protocol as you wish using reverse HTTP proxies. The only thing that would effect your ability to distribute a CouchDB database is your connection speed. CouchDB was designed for unrestricted distribution capabilities, so have at it! Best, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
