Re: asking opinion about hosting database and webserver on the same server

2005-11-11 Thread Gary Richardson
It depends on what heavy traffic is and what your machine is.. If it's an E10K, then you can probably put them both on one machine for most traffic loads :) Your database will typically perform better if you have your DB on a separate machine. Without knowing more about the code running the site,

asking opinion about hosting database and webserver on the same server

2005-11-11 Thread Bing Du
Hello all, Should MySQL and Apache be hosted on separate servers or it's ok they being on one server? We're building a compound that includes about 10 websites, all their contents are hosted in MySQL. There will be frequent database updates and the webserver will have to handle heavy traffic. T