Noah, Any thoughts about preferring an ssh tunnel?
Paul On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Samuel, > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:32:48AM +0100, samuel alba wrote: >> I am new to CouchDB and I'd like to know if it's possible to deploy CouchDB >> over different servers over the world to share the same database. Is it >> efficient and could it be secured (I saw CouchDB supports ssl). I guess >> CouchDB was originally designed to distribute a database over a datacenter or >> in a local network. > > You can tunnel CouchDB over SSL or any other secure protocol as you wish using > reverse HTTP proxies. The only thing that would effect your ability to > distribute a CouchDB database is your connection speed. CouchDB was designed > for > unrestricted distribution capabilities, so have at it! > > Best, > > -- > Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater >