TeAm Stats... Poll and input needed from youz guyz!

[Ken g6]

I'm not very familiar with the DNS system, but couldn't you just put another extension on tastats.com that goes to another machine (your home machine)? Like *.tastats.com -> *.data.tastats.com?

 

[GeoffS]

Originally posted by: Ken_g6
I'm not very familiar with the DNS system, but couldn't you just put another extension on tastats.com that goes to another machine (your home machine)? Like *.tastats.com -> *.data.tastats.com?

I believe the problem is that if I try to serve up pages from a machine on my home network, it will have to be on a non-standard port since Adelphia blocks port 80... that will prevent some people from accessing the pages.

So, what I want to do is use a hosting service to publish the pages, but use my home machine to host the database... I don't know if there is going to be a significant hit on performance doing it this way, and I'll try to fine tune as best I can... I just don't want to take stuff away from the stats if I can avoid it...

Currently, every page that is accessed hits that database... none of them are static pages... Seeing as how the contents of the pages only changes when updates are performed, I was thinking of adding code to the update processes (hourly and/or daily) to write out static HTML pages containing the exact same information that the dynamic PHP pages would contain, but there wouldn't be a hit to the database for each page view. Faster page loads, lower bandwidth... everyone is happy! lol...

Now, it obviously won't be feasible to create a static page for every user, but it does make sense for several of the other pages. I just have to figure out where to draw the line!

Geoff