Thanks all for the suggestions and idea provoking chatter. I appreciate. I
also much apologize as I didn't fully comprehend your first suggestion
Perrin. Simple mind lapse caused by a lack of sleep and not enough
caffeine. :o)
But, you are right about the DB being down. A cache is a must in such a
case. Thank you for pointing that out. :o)
Brian Johnson
Systems Administrator/Programmer
Source1hosting.tv (www.source1hosting.tv)
Surgeon General announcement:
"Coffee is a direct substitute for sleep."
> Sure, and it looks like you got your question answered. The two
> approaches
> are pretty similar in terms of the results, but the off-line approach does
> require either using a custom startup script or doing two steps
> (build conf
> and then restart server). On the other hand, the off-line approach will
> allow you to start your server even when the database is down. You might
> want to build your dynamic conf file approach with a cache for the
> last-accessed database info, so that it has something to fall
> back to if the
> db goes down.
> - Perrin
>
