website: re-word a few things

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Ryan Uber 2014-10-13 22:56:41 -07:00
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@ -55,12 +55,12 @@ Serf provides membership, failure detection, and event broadcast mechanisms. Our
is described more in the [gossip documentation](/docs/internals/gossip.html). It is enough to know
gossip involves random node-to-node communication, primarily over UDP.
* LAN Gossip - This is used to mean that there is a gossip pool, containing nodes that
are all located on the same local area network or datacenter.
* LAN Gossip - Refers to the LAN gossip pool, which contains nodes that are all
located on the same local area network or datacenter.
* WAN Gossip - This is used to mean that there is a gossip pool, containing servers that
are primary located in different datacenters and must communicate over the internet or
wide area network.
* WAN Gossip - Refers to the WAN gossip pool, which contains only servers. These
servers are primarily located in different datacenters and typically communicate
over the internet or wide area network.
* RPC - RPC is short for a Remote Procedure Call. This is a request / response mechanism
allowing a client to make a request from a server.