In this blog, I would like to mark myself as a power-user of
MMM. For more then 3 years now I'm engineering high-traffic
websites and none of them was a small project. In the beginning I
worked behind the livejasmin.com project (warning: NSFW!) which
is an Alexa top100 site and now I'm working at ustream.tv which
is in the top500 (so far). In this area, your greatest enemy is
downtime. Thousands of users want to see your dynamic content by
executing thousand of queries against your MySQL servers and what
they don't have is the patience and they don't even tolerate
critical security-upgrades. In both sites I mentioned above there
is no point in time during the day at which less then 10k
visitors are hitting the sites. Now one question comes up:
How can you do an upgrade on your MySQL servers or how can you
alter a larger table?
So you have a new feature and that means another index on a table
or you just want to upgrade your …
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