[consulting] Drupal server requirements

[Boerland, Bert]

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From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org

> Why not cluster MySQL instead, do all your writes to a 
> ingle database and reads from one or more mirrored dbs? If 
> you set it up right, the latency should be measured in 
> milliseconds. Even InnoDB can get flooded.

not saying that more hardware is better perse. i have zeen zillions of extra redundancy in designs only leading to more downtime and complexity. but having a clusterd backend might be a good thing (you can take down a node and do maintenance on it for example)

take a look on this howto
http://www.howtoforge.com/loadbalanced_mysql_cluster_debian

(yes a drupal site :-)