hosting database on separate server

Posted by Amit Aggarwal on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Amit Aggarwal
Published on 2011-02-22T06:31:08Z Indexed on 2011/02/22 7:26 UTC
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Hello Experts,

We have an enterprise web app to which our clients post/upload lots of documents [mainly images and pdf files] via web interface, iphone app etc etc. We are also using imagick to split pdf documents into images.

Also, large number of mysql SELECT/UPDATE/DELETE queries happen all day.

Currently, all of this is happening on same server and we are planning to split the process in 3 stages :

1) a server only for database

2) a server only for documents (document upload, splitting etc)

3) a server for the main php web app

Is there any drawback with this kind of structure as compared to hosting everything on same server ?

Please guide.

Thanks, Amit

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