NONE: ONLINE-ADS>> Re: Has Commonwealth fled to Rio with our money?
ONLINE-ADS>> Re: Has Commonwealth fled to Rio with our money?
Bob Wyman (bobwyman_at_healthgate.com)
Tue, 1 Oct 1996 09:26:47 -0400
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James Lick <jlick_at_drivel.com> wrote:
>3) Their site is unreachable on an unusually frequent
> basis. 4) Even when their site is up, sometimes it takes several
> minutes to load a banner. ... [This reflects] poorly on the
> member sites by giving the impression that the member site
> itself is slow and unprofessional.
Too often, technologies are accepted because they "appear" to work.
Thus, a large number of sites have accepted the kind of system that
Commonwealth offers. i.e. off-site serving of banners. Unfortunately,
when you take a really close look at the implementation, you'll
discover that there are many, many flaws. Performance and reliabilty
is only part of the problem.
It takes us all quite a bit of work to manage the complexity of your
own site. However, the moment you introduce off-site banner serving,
you include the full complexity of the off-site server within your
own system. Thus, any efforts to minimize page load time, server
availability, etc. are limited by your ability to control the other
site (probably none.) Downtime now has to be measured as your own
downtime PLUS the downtime of the off-site server. If you're lucky,
you'll work with a good server, however, you will *always* be at risk
no matter how professional the other site is.
This approach of off-site banner serving may work for the very small
sites that simply can't afford the burden of managing for quality of
service. For larger sites, the burden of an off-site server will
simply be too great.
bob wyman
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