that there are about a dozen servers arranged pretty much they way we were planning at SG. Theoretically they should be in approximate synch, but at the moment as soon as the load goes up propagation starts taking on the order of 20 minutes. As far as I can tell, so long as you get a confirmation it was really logged; if you get an 'empty page' return, there really was a load failure and you really do need to resubmit.
So Stephen's theory is
Date: 2003-05-24 03:50 pm (UTC)