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<TITLE>Re Justincc blog post: "Could there be a future without big grids? August 15, 2008"</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I actually have 8 grids, with each grid running 8 servers. No, I am not rich, I am using cloud services, which are working quite well. I rarely have more than the basic 8 turned on (one server - landing regions for each grid), and even then shut some off for periods to save money. Right now it is behind a private wall, but I will be opening it up soon, so if anyone is curious, I will add my grids to the grid list. At any rate, after reading the blog post I began wondering, and justincc does deal with this - Right now, all they share is registration. I wrote some scripts so that registration with one puts the user info in all the databases. Except for that, all 8 grids are separate. Inspired by the blog post, I started thinking if it would be possible to share some resources, so that a user could have their inventory and user info stored in one place (right now the php scripts just copy the same user info to the 8 databases and each grid has their own set of UGAI). I suppose I could just try this, but do you think that would work? If I change the setup so that all 8 ini's point to the same inventory and user server, but in all other regards they are separate? Any suggestions if it is more complex then that? I am guessing it is more complex than that. If anyone has some suggestions on where to start playing, I am happy to try it out. Many thanks in advance,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Drew</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Drew Hart, Technical Support Coordinator, Secretarial Services, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP</FONT>
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