read speeds are almost identical. for writes there is a slight delay to get transactional agreement from a majority of the sites and then the write happens to the local server. the users can't tell the difference.
We got around the central server by using wandisco's multisite product. They have a high availability solution as well but we wanted to have local read/write speeds at all our locations.
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man I'd pay billions in tax payer dollars to get 'em fixed. what a deal!
read speeds are almost identical. for writes there is a slight delay to get transactional agreement from a majority of the sites and then the write happens to the local server. the users can't tell the difference.
it keeps everything in sync across multiple locations, provides access control, and works with all my user's existing clients / IDEs.
We got around the central server by using wandisco's multisite product. They have a high availability solution as well but we wanted to have local read/write speeds at all our locations.