Thread: What's the deal with this site? - More FYI than anything else...

http://eastside.wirebound.net/

I notice that its pretty deep in the google (showing up in search 
results fairly high), and seems to be a mirror of some sort.

Just noticed it and was wondering if that's something that's 
known/sanctioned....or if its a mirror that is misbehaving.

chander

Chander Ganesan wrote:
> http://eastside.wirebound.net/
> 
> I notice that its pretty deep in the google (showing up in search 
> results fairly high), and seems to be a mirror of some sort.
> 
> Just noticed it and was wondering if that's something that's 
> known/sanctioned....or if its a mirror that is misbehaving.

eastside is one of the static mirror frontends for www.postgresql.org.


Stefan

Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Chander Ganesan wrote:
>> http://eastside.wirebound.net/
>>
>> I notice that its pretty deep in the google (showing up in search 
>> results fairly high), and seems to be a mirror of some sort.
>>
>> Just noticed it and was wondering if that's something that's 
>> known/sanctioned....or if its a mirror that is misbehaving.
>
> eastside is one of the static mirror frontends for www.postgresql.org.
I suspected that.  However, shouldn't it show up as wwwX.postgresql.org, 
as opposed to directly via eastside?  The fact that it's getting into 
google's cache via a different name seems like kind of a problem, since 
google doesn't like the duplicate content (for one, AFAIK it hurts 
pagerank)...and you've now got things so that if eastside goes 
away/changes names in the future, people will get a bunch of bad links 
from google for awhile...

Perhaps a permanennt redirect from the eastside URL to the same URL with 
the www.postgresql.com domain?

Chander Ganesan wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>> Chander Ganesan wrote:
>>> http://eastside.wirebound.net/
>>>
>>> I notice that its pretty deep in the google (showing up in search 
>>> results fairly high), and seems to be a mirror of some sort.
>>>
>>> Just noticed it and was wondering if that's something that's 
>>> known/sanctioned....or if its a mirror that is misbehaving.
>>
>> eastside is one of the static mirror frontends for www.postgresql.org.
> I suspected that.  However, shouldn't it show up as wwwX.postgresql.org, 
> as opposed to directly via eastside?  The fact that it's getting into 
> google's cache via a different name seems like kind of a problem, since 
> google doesn't like the duplicate content (for one, AFAIK it hurts 
> pagerank)...and you've now got things so that if eastside goes 
> away/changes names in the future, people will get a bunch of bad links 
> from google for awhile...

eastside is not a mirror that is directly controlled by the us (magnus 
is the contact point for that one).
It's not like we are actively refering to eastside.wirebound.net 
anywhere on the main site - so I'm not sure why it is actually showing 
up in google using that particular hostname.


> 
> Perhaps a permanennt redirect from the eastside URL to the same URL with 
> the www.postgresql.com domain?

well that assumes that eastside.wirebound.net is not supposed to carry 
any other content - and btw all our www-mirrors do actually have 
different hostnames :-)


Stefan