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by huijzer 986 days ago
How big are your apps? Wouldn’t the most simple and reliable way be to get one beefy MySQL server and let all the app instances connect to that?
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zeroCalories 986 days ago
One large VM won't give you replication/sharding, failover, or backups.
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Aeolun 986 days ago
With one large VM, for most use cases, you do not need anything but the backups.
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zeroCalories 985 days ago
Sure, if your workload is small and you have a SLA of "it will be fine."
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Aeolun 984 days ago
Most businesses do not need an SLA on ther webservice beyond ‘call us if it doesn’t work’.
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