Anyone who looks at the stuff I tagged to delicious yesterday will see that I ran into some articles on MySQL replication. It all started when I stumbled across an article on setting up a 4 node master-master set up on debian. I knew that Master-Slave was available for MySQL – but not master-master. So I did some quick digging and saved all those links for later, since I don’t have time just right now to really dig in.

That type of load balancing and fault tolerance can get very, very expensive in the commercial database world. I’m extremely interested to see just how it works, what the drawbacks are, etc. Of course now I’m going to need to dig up some hardware to build a cluster. That will have to come first. After that – I’ll let you know how it goes.