On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Mike Malone <mjmal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I don't think I've commented on this list before so let me briefly > introduce myself. I'm Mike Malone. I live in San Francisco. I'm a developer > (primarily web dev) and have some experience working with large clustered > databases. I worked for Pownce.com, but moved to Six Apart when they > acquired Pownce in November 2008. > > I like the idea of a tree-structure since it's simple to understand and > implement, but I think there may be cases where having multiple top-level > proxies may make sense.
I think so. I think that there could be proxy overlap / redundancy across all levels of the tree, and also in the case of a flat tree. As long as the proxies agree on how to hash from URLs to nodes it should just work. -- Chris Anderson http://jchris.mfdz.com