On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:52:22PM -0700, Steven Roussey wrote: > > Other people can tell you more about replication and how it is > different from clustering or load balancing. And you can use it for > backup in a way too. It depends on your requirements though.
Yeah. And you can use replication to enable load-balancing. They work quite well together. > If things are partitionable, then some thinking about that upfront > will do you a world of good later. Depend on your application > though. Indeed. Partitioning before you NEED to can save a ton of hassle. > > 7) I'd also appreciate any input from people who have used > > official mysql support before. > > We have used their support and it was excellent. Heck, their free support is great. The paid stuff just gurantees it. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 3.23.51: up 75 days, processed 1,588,578,807 queries (242/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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