[PLUG] Separating out MySQL and Apache to different boxes?

[Aaron Burt]

On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:53:08PM -0800, Kris wrote:
> Aaron Burt wrote:
> > OTOH, web-apps usually use RDBMSes for storage, and it'd be silly for
> > someone writing a web-app to not understand the basics.  Mind, they
> > won't learn it in university (too practical) and they won't learn it on
> > the job unless they're forced to.
> 
> I'm not a web-app developer nor a dba, but why should web-developers
> need to be db experts?

They just have to understand the basics.  Practically speaking, most
web-apps are just front-ends to a relational database.  And unless you
understand how a relational database works and what it's good at doing,
you can't design an application that makes effective use of it.

The DB *expert* is useful when your WikiBaySter/Web-2.0/Folksonomy site
takes off and you can't upgrade fast enough to keep up with traffic.

Web-servers are just glorified FEPs,
  Aaron