<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The CDN subdomain is hosted on a completely separate system to most of<br>
the others.<br>
It shares server space with <a href="http://download.kde.org" target="_blank">download.kde.org</a> and <a href="http://files.kde.org" target="_blank">files.kde.org</a>, and<br>
runs behind Incapsula which provides caching.<br>
<br>
You wouldn't be able to do much in the way of dynamic content there as<br>
a result, as accessing the various databases would be impossible at<br>
the moment.<br>
(Out of interest, what are you trying to achieve?)<br>
</blockquote><div><br><div><div>Mainly, one of the things I'd like to do is centralise the
javascript and serve out a general-purpose JSON feed/API from a single
subdomain ("<a href="http://wapi.kde.org">wapi.kde.org</a>", for example); common content which would be digested by all websites and
centrally maintained. The goal being to shift complexity away from individual systems wherever possible. Then, at most, indivdiual websites would only need to provide configuration options.<br><br></div><div>The immediate future would be
things like serving out the header and footer structure as a means to
keep all navigations permanently in sync. <br><br>As soon as things get centralised, we get to cheaply
incorporate useful dynamic data across all sites, like including release announcement links, adding trending 'support' topics from the forums, or security advisories. I know some of these things can be done separately though different APIs, but having a central abstraction for the disparate systems would centralise complexity in a maintainable way, make the high-level API much cleaner, and cut down on requests. <br></div><div><br></div>There's
other more interesting things than links I would like to include this
way, but having portions of structure be centralised I think is the
first step to maintainability. In the future, I'd like to believe we
could have a Googlish setup where sites share
logins, notifications, etc much more easily. But that'd be further off.<br></div><div><br></div> - Ken <br></div></div></div></div>