[OT] Syndicated files uploaded by mod_perl across multiple machines

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mod_perl is going to be running on machineA, which also hosts the 
static files

At some point in time, should the application need to scale, static 
files would be served off of another machine -- machineB

I dont forsee this happening anytime soon, but I don't want to shoot 
myself in the foot, and want to provide an infrastructure with hooks 
that will accept additional coding (and not be rewriting large chunks 
of code as time goes on to make things work)

Which brings me to a problem that I never thought of before -- how do i 
syndicate filestructure contents across the machines?

would this be an rsync over cronjob?
would i have mod_perl connect to a daemon alternate ports on the static 
machines and push the content there?
perhaps those machines would 'ping' the mod perl server occasionally to 
see if they needed content.

i have no idea what to do.