Can control panels handle separation of server and database in different droplets?

Okay thanks for that answer. So then, from what you know, all control panels are assuming that larger site loads are that the server is continually increasing in ram, cpu, and storage? One fuzzy memory of mine is that when I used something like SiteGround and cPanel that the MySQL database was a separate server that I had to access though… this was a long time ago though. I use Dreamhost now and their MySQL databases are always separate but they have their own custom cPanel they built.

So digging around I found this: https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/cloudmin/iscsi but being a n00b I can’t tell… does this mean Virtualmin can handle separate droplets for dedicated databases and storage?

@tannerchung

cPanel used to allow you to separate the web server from the database server, though the tool that handled it was a bit clunky and failed often. Looking over their docs, I’m not seeing this an an option now so they may have removed it or changed the way it worked.

Beyond that, setting up a cluster is generally manual work and you’d need to do it from the CLI.