Hello everyone,
I’m working on a large app & website using PHP\Laravel, and I have the following servers:
- One load balancer.
- Three Webservers.
- one Redis server for a session, and cache.
- one worker server for running the jobs.
- One big MySQL server for the database.
However, I want to add a load balancer in front of the database to distribute the traffic.
My question is, will the managed database help with this? Or I should go with instances instead and configure the MySQL cluster manually?
Thanks
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Hi @devkhaledz,
You should be able to use both the suggested options - managed database, configuring MySQL cluster manually.
My opinion however would be to go about configuring it manually but that’s a personal reference not based on any facts, I just like doing it that way. Having said that, both options are plausible and achievable. It’s basically, up to you.
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