You have answered your own question, good sir. Or so I have come to believe. Is your primary concern $? Is your organization focused on the bottom line? Option B allows you to move in the costsaving direction. I imagine some may object to sharing resources between (potentially exploitable) WordPress installations but hey, so goes the show, as they say around these parts here!
-- Howdy, Lydia On Oct 18, 2011 5:19 PM, "Mark, Ryan" <rm...@tribune.com> wrote: > Architecture question I'm having trouble finding an answer to: > > I run four WordPress websites. I have mysql setup in a write master/read > replica slave configuration on Amazon. There is one master that all the > WordPress instances write to. I'm trying to figure out how to setup the read > replicas. > > Should I: > > A. Give each WordPress instance it's own read replica? > > or > > B. Have all the WordPress instances use all the read replicas? > > I have done A before, and it works fine. But by going with B I can > consolidate, use beefier hardware and save money. > > Any thoughts? > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=ly...@lydiarowe.com > >