[consulting] Drupal server requirements

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

John Handelaar wrote:

> Michael Haggerty wrote:
>
>> Why not cluster MySQL instead, do all your writes to a single 
>> database and
>> reads from one or more mirrored dbs? 
>
>
> Because Drupal can't do that.
>
> Though Kieran &co are trying, I note.
>
>

Drupal can do everything. It might need soem convincing, though:

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/crackerjm/replication/

Cheers,
    Gerhard