I find that, after keeping alive a database whose size I cant comment on specifically, on a budget that I cant comment on specifically (which would shock you if only you knew), I’ve become aloof to a great many people and their MySQL war stories… 300Mb, 1Gb, 100Gb, 1Tb, HAH! HAH I SAY! Here’s a quarter call someone who’ll be impressed.
Next time you have to move your datacenter across the country (literally coast to coast,) and you cant let your application go down, and you have 14 days to plan and execute, alone, oh and you cant cease taking information in on the old coast until you start can taking it in on the new coast, with over 1Tb of data to move, and replication to deal with… Oh, yea, and you dont get to take a break from running the old datacenter to impliment the new one, you have to do both simultaneously… yea… then come knock on my door.
Till then go take your 2Gb “one server is enough but i have a second server for backup purposes” MySQL (or any brand really) database, and be thankful you arent playing with the big boys. I’ve had the potential to lose more data to a power outage than you’ve got total.
If you live in an area with earthquakes, you might suffer. If you live in an area with a volcano, you might suffer. If you live in an area where it floods, freezes, scorches, has terrible storms, landslides, avalanches, aligators, bears, lions, snakes, spiders, insects… you might suffer. Sounds like suffering is inherent in nature doesnt it?
If you live in a city, you’ll most likely suffer. If you drive a car, you’ll most likely suffer. If you ride a bike, walk dow the street, deal in business, dont deal in business, work too hard, work too little, live in an unstable country, live in a stable one, work in a school, work at a prison, work (hell anywhere), IF YOU DEAL WITH PEOPLE YOU WILL SUFFER.
I don’t understand why it is that when suffering happens, iether because of nature of because of people, we all drop what we’re doing and gawk like a global community of rubberneckers. And I dont understand why we expect that the internet should be without suffering when we’ve taken nature out (the milder of the two) and replaced it with a heaping handful of human. Anonymous human at that. People this is life… Do something unprecedented about it, or learn to live with the fact that something might happen. Because lets face it you could fall for an e-mail scam, or you could trip on a crack in the sidewalk and sustain fatal injuries. Life’s just a bitch sometimes… It’s enough of a bitch without all the bitching going on…
