Re: Re[2]: Does someone really use LVS as a HTTP,FTP or SMTP server?

[Brian Edmonds <bedmonds@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kyle Sparger <ksparger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Something I was considering was creating a star-like topology of MySQL
> databases -- a central one which accepts writes, and the arms being
> exclusively for reads.

This is what we do for our web farm.  We've got a custom db server
(simple berkdb databases) that runs on every webserver, and a special IP
address that maps to just the write server.  We also use heartbeat to
fail over the write server address in case the primary fails.

Brian.