I&#39;m not talking about a dedicated database server, but a dedicated *query* server where the only thing done on that server is handling queries, allowing maximum processor capacity to be dedicated to it.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 10/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bryan Tong Minh</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:bryan.tongminh@gmail.com">bryan.tongminh@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 10/26/07, James Hare &lt;<a href="mailto:messedrocker@gmail.com">messedrocker@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>&gt; So let&#39;s see... my idea is a duplicate of the toolserver, and we want a<br>&gt; public query service, but it would prove too tempting for people to use it
<br>&gt; for a denial of service attack, not to mention the fact that it would bog<br>&gt; down the server.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Does this *have* to be on the toolserver, or can we take the databases and<br>&gt; put it on its own server dedicated for querying? Maybe we could have a sexy
<br>&gt; *multi-server* layout featuring a distributed computing scheme.<br>&gt;<br>We do have dedicated database servers. The toolserver is not one server.<br><br>Bryan<br><br>_______________________________________________
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