I'm struggling with a hosting facility on setting up the co-op on a webfarm. The developers of the site wish to push everything to the farm manually from a test/staging server. Once on the farm, the sites do not see any saved changes to the .txt file until the next push. So that means that any ads that are pulled from the server will not be displayed until they are pushed to the live server. My question is two parts: 1) How often is the .txt file updated? (I perhaps can convince them of setting up a cron job to push that file if it isn't too frequent) 2) Any other way of getting around this? MySQL? Hosting the .txt elsewhere? (Is there a MySQL port? That would be handy in more ways than one.) Thanks, Jason
.txt file is updated every 15 minutes... but even if you do it hourly or even daily (if you had to) it should be okay.
Wait... that's not going to work since when the servers request a new ad, it's not writing the .txt file... You could always setup a single server (that does update the .txt file), and have all the servers just include the output of that I suppose.
thanks shawn, that gives me a better idea of what is happening to the .txt file. I'll play around and share what I'm successful with.