16.Replicating Your Database
One of the advanced features included in MySQL is replication. Using this feature, you can have multiple servers storing the same data. You might do this for performance reasons, for reliability, or for ease of backups. Additionally, you might choose to make use of replication simply to spread your database load across multiple servers you already own, instead of one (new) large server.
Replicating a database can provide fault tolerance. If your master server fails, a slave can be treated as a hot backup and immediately be turned into the master.
In a system in which most operations involve reading data, but not writing data, replication can improve performance by routing queries to a number of machines. You ...
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