Guys - thanks for the replys - do any of you guys are on odesk or elancer.com ??
thanks
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Rick James <rjames@stripped> wrote:
> I prefer:
> * Master-Master ("dual master") but write to only one of them. (Writing to both
> can lead to duplicate keys, etc., unless you are very careful in your code.)
> * Have the two Masters geographically separate. (Think tornados, floods,
> earthquakes, etc)
> * Have Slave(s) hanging of each master -- (1) for read scaling, and (2) to avoid a
> major outage when one Master goes down and you need to take the other one down to clone
> it.
>
> Another thing to consider:
> Backing up via a "LVM snapshot" requires only a minute or so of downtime, regardless
> of dataset size.
> Percona's XtraBackup is also very good.
>
> I also agree that MyISAM in not best. But, caution, InnoDB's disk footprint is
> 2x=3x bigger than MyISAM's.
>
> You can Load Balance reads (among slaves and, optionally, masters); you cannot do
> writes.
>
> Any number of Apache servers can talk to MySQL. But watch out -- MaxClients
> should not be so large that it swamps max_connections.
>
> Load balancing:
> DNS is the simple way to load balance Apache.
> There are low-impact software solutions.
> There are hardware solutions. (This is what I am used to at work; it is severe
> overkill for most users.)
>
> Bottom line: There is no "best" or "perfect" solution. First decide what
> 'keeps you up at night'.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joey L [mailto:mjh2000@stripped]
>> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 7:26 AM
>> To: mysql@stripped
>> Subject: i need advice on redundancy of mysql server.
>>
>> I am running a site with about 50gig myisam databases which are the
>> backend to different websites.
>> I can not afford any downtime and the data is realtime.
>>
>> What is the best method for this setup? master-master or master-slave?
>>
>> What are the best utilities to create and maintain this setup? as far
>> as load balancing between the two physical servers that i am running.
>> I am currently working with percona utilities - is there something
>> better ?
>> what would you use to load balance mysql ? what would you use to load
>> balance apache.
>>
>>
>> thanks
>>
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