It doesn't really matter how many servers you have. I could have 20 servers, but they all could be using Pentium 2 processors...

This is true... it's more meaningful if you include how much traffic you handle. I'm pushing 2200-2300 users at peak on 2 servers.

Web P4 2,8Ghz 2GB ram and 2x 120gb SATA raid 1

DB P4 2,8Ghz 2GB ram and 4x 120gb SATA raid 1
Also a second nic's in both servers and a switch for the db network wich is seperate of the normal network.

how do you split your database up over servers?

4 dual core opteron 280's with 4gigs of RAM each for scripts, email and backup, 2 dual 3.6GHz xeon's with 6 gigs of RAM each for mysql and 1 64 athlon 4000+ with 1 gig of RAM for image serving. plus a hardware load balancer and a firewall

I wonder the same. I know how to split forum search into another db like the slave DB, but just as far as that :S
Would be great if some people around here explained or write down a guide or something. Im really interested, besides one of my boards is getting really big (well, not as big as some of the boards here)

Hi,

wich forum is this?

it's a private russian board about urban exploration and speleology. laws about trespassing are quite strict in Russia/ex-USSR countries and getting a precautionary shot in the head is not the least of our worries. so information like maps, entrance points, photos and details about our gatherings is best kept private.

community was actually started back in 1988 as a BBS running PCB MetaWorlds. much later we had to go through quite a lot of shit to convert the old db into vBulletin format.

I'm on Dual Xeon 2.8GHZ with 2GB Ram.

Board has 10k+ users with around 100+ members online at anytime.

3 months old.

currrently on 1