I read this article on ExtremeTech today and it moved me. The author makes so many great points, especially:
Maybe you’ll enjoy it too.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2286801,00.asp
Darryl and I were wondering how AOL manages to make money these days, since neither of us knows anyone using their rather obtuse desktop software or dialup service. I may have stumbled upon the answer: not unlike Google, AOL is doing Internet advertising (sneaky sneaky!) and they apparently have a rather large market share.
After a brief hiatus to play with failover and load-balancing we’re back online! I’ll be doing some more testing to quantify the feasibility of hosting a website from two geographically disparate servers without having a single centralized database or filesystem – both common points of failure. Stay tuned for updates on this project!
