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Re:Ask HN: Best setups to avoid availability outages on AWS on Saturday June 30, 2012 @05:33PM (#4182893)
Thanks a lot for sharing, I can add one more option, write to one master mysql db, use slaves in other locations. Read would be near to web server, if master colo fails, you can't write. But there are workarounds like standby master in another location.