At 20:59 17/01/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Jesse Erlbaum writes:
> > Hey All!
> >
> > I have been evaluating MySQL and using it on internal production
machines for
> > a while now (>1 year). I am now in a position where I have a new
application
> > which is being specified, and it has a great need to be able to scale
up to a
<snip>
>From the other side of a router, you can get load distribution by using
round-robin DNS (this is what the large search engines do). No special OS
required. No special hardware required. No special DBMS.
IMHO the lower the level at which you implement such facility the better.
If you have an OS that will support IP aliasing (i.e. multiple dynamically)
configured ip addresses then you can VERY easily build in fault tolerance.
RTFM
...and if you can't find the FM, then begin by looking at the Linux High
Availability HOWTO.
Good luck,
Colin
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