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by WrtCdEvrydy 3301 days ago
Recommended is 3 servers, 2 CPU cores, 2 GB of RAM.

However, single server configurations are perfectly acceptable for personal clusters.

I would strongly recommend taking a cluster backup when you get it up and running though, since single cluster configurations do not deal well with unexpected power failures.
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zerkten 3301 days ago
Is there a reason for this? When I see something like it makes me question what it'll be like for larger clusters.
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WrtCdEvrydy 3301 days ago
Because in larger clusters, the cluster can fix any issues if one hosts goes offline (load balancing) or a database gets corrupted.

In a single cluster configuration, anything going wrong can destroy your cluster's capability. Think of it as RAID, the more drives, the more you can do for high availability.

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