With such an international readership, it is particularly short-sighted to restrict this to US only. I live in and work from Budapest Hungary, but manage Linux servers for clients all over the world. As CTO of a busy social networking organisation, I would have had something to contribute! Andy Haveland-Robinson »

Jeremy, if we all had a little imagination, such all too brief articles would be unnecessary! Would it not be possible to expand a little more on load balancing, for example? Specifically, how to direct writes to the current master, and deal with failover in more concrete terms? Cheers, Andy. »