Try linux virtual server. You can Load Balance any port on a multitude of servers. Your MySQL Servers you would load balance would have to be read-only slaves though.
We are currently running two linux virtual servers to load-balance same-port services on multiple servers with multiple Unix OSes. The Linux Virtual Servers are even clustering themselves for fail-over. -RG On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Daniel Page wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to try to implement a MySQL server that is spanned over several > machines (a sort of database cluster) - as this is only a test, I am not too > woried about the end OS, but I will probably use a Mandrake 8.1 or 8.2 Linux > distribution. > > I have found in the manual information about running several servers on the > same system, but nothing on running one (or several linked) servers that can > run queries on a database distributed over several systems... > > Any information, passed experiences, or links to ressources on the web will > be greatly appreciated. > > Cheers, > Daniel > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php