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Re: Re: CGI::App in the wild: Miami University: msg#00069

Subject: Re: Re: CGI::App in the wild: Miami University
On 8/18/06, Robert Hicks <sigzero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sam Tregar wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Mark Stosberg wrote:
>
>> - Storing photos in PostgreSQL for easy deployment on load-balanced
>> web servers. (So far, that's worked surprising well)
>
> That is surprising!  Why would you do that instead of using NFS?
>

I am curious about that as well...

I've never understood this fascination with storing files instead of a
DB instead of storing filenames and keeping the actual files on a NFS
or NAS. It just seems so ... wasteful.

Rob

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