[RH List] RE: Separate shell and www servers...

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Ben Yau wrote:

>How many users are we talking?
>
>If you favor security over timeliness, you may want to set something up with
>rsync where your www server can rsync to your sh server but not the other
>way around.  Have it run out of cron every minute or so on the www server.
>For example, on shell server let's say the webdir is in
>/home/username/webdir and on your webserver it translates to
>/home/www/username
>
>rsync shellserver:/home/username/webdir/ /home/www/username
>  
>
    Couple of hundred users, with a couple of several hundred sites 
(several sites per user.)  I need it to be live in that when a user 
makes a change, it gets reflected right away, so the rsync idea wouldn't 
work - even running it every minute because the amount of data that it 
will be transferring back and forth.  I have users that do massive 
changes to their site, and that would take more than a minute to 
transfer back and forth.  That's why I thought of using an active NFS 
mount.  I'm just not sure how to implement it.

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