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Old 12-11-2003, 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted by LostMind

As for load balancing...

We currently have a few clients running busy forum software. The easiest approach we found so far is to have multiple front ends running the software and bouncing users between each frontend machine with simple round robin dns setup.

Then, having a master mysql server handling some of the db reads and all of the writes, and then having several mysql slaves, handling only reads and synching to the master...

Very simple and effective. Actual clustering gets a bit tricky.

Yeah, that sounds good. Would this work for RC? I would think so.

When you say clustering is tricky, does that apply to Windows 2000 Advanced Server? (we deploy Windows 2000 clusters in some hospitals.)
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