[MPlayer-mirror] [RFC] several vhosts by content type

[Enrico Weigelt]

Hi folks,


as I already suggested in my last mail, I'm thinking about splitting
off the website into several vhosts by parts / content types / etc.
So we could regulate a little bit finer, ie. put less important 
stuff on slower machines, serve tarballs with lower priority / 
limited bandwidth, ... 

Here my suggestion:

+ The website tree structure remains untouched.
+ Some kind of links are now absolute, referring to several virtual 
  hostnames by their content type.
+ The hostnames are (for example):

    www		The front multiplexer (only used as entry point)
    pix		Pictures, Icons, css, etc - evrything that's not 
    		really needed to read the website
    docs	Documentations
    sources	For source tarballs
    

References between these parts of course have to be absolute, so the
right vhost name is taken by the client. Nevertheless the website
would be fully accessible if we stay within one vhost (ie. an good
thing if we forgot to change some link).

Each of these virtual names are assigned to a list of hosts, each 
host with some multiplier factor. The large the available bandwidth,
the larger the factor. If bandwidth availability changes (gets rare
or better), we simply change this factor. 


Additionally we could implement an HTTP-Redirect-based download
multiplexer for larger content, ie. tarballs or screenshots. 
It provides an canonical URL for files and kicks the client to the
currently best available server (based on bandwidth and load 
measuremens, etc), so the download gets from there.
But thats another story ...


What do you think about this ?


cu
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