Scaling Ruby on Rails: Setting Up A Dedicated MySQL Server (part 2)
In this second part of our Scaling-Rails the cloud provider article series, we are going to see how to create a droplet to host the database layer, for application servers to connect-to and work-with. Our aim here is to minimize the chances of letting a Single Point of Failure (SPoF) emerge as a possible culprit of downtime (or loss), by distinctively delegating one single task per server.