On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
What about if one requires a distributed server for an application to be used from several locations? I still believe you can do that. Albeit with a few restrictions. Most database allow replication and with that, you can have a single box as a the write box and multiple readers (from the replicated hosts.). Wikipedia/facebook uses this AFAIK http://dom.as/2010/07/25/mysql-versions-at-wikipedia/ http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/06/24/a-look-inside-wikiped... http://www.paragon-cs.com/wordpress/?p=144
A couple of people also use Multi-master replication for their databases http://mysql-mmm.org/start
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