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Old 16 Aug 2004, 05:32 AM   #88
oysterquartz
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The single database was my point. Why wouldn't you split databases and have customer data in one (additionally for increased security of customer's personal data) and handle the file storage/website side of the equation so that a single point of failure won't compromise everything.

Email down for several hours is bad enough, but having ones website down at the same time is even worse.

I seem to remember some commercial webmail applications advising this approach ...
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