Re: Spreading the load across multiple servers (was: Server Stats)

1999-10-21 Thread Ed Phillips
>I don't have any real answers - just a suggestion. What is wrong with the >classic RDBMS architecture of RAID 1 on multiple drives with MySQL - surely >it will be able to do that transparently? Yes, RAID is very helpful with MySQL. I spoke with Monty, the developer of MySQL at the open sour

RE: Spreading the load across multiple servers (was: Server Stats)

1999-10-21 Thread William R. Lorenz
Has anyone considered writing a proxy to allow the client and/or server software to connect to a single data source, or would this defeat the purpose by having the software use a single server as a proxy? :) In addition, what are the issues involved with mirroring a MySQL database between databas

RE: Spreading the load across multiple servers (was: Server Stats)

1999-10-21 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, William R. Lorenz wrote: > Has anyone considered writing a proxy to allow the client > and/or server software to connect to a single data source, > or would this defeat the purpose by having the software use > a single server as a proxy? :) > > In addition, what are the issue