John: > Have you thought of separating the databases? One for the > reads and one > for the write on different raids? Despite what some may believe this > can be done. Our goal is to create redundancy. We want either system to be able to work if the other is not available. Designating one database as a write db and the other as a read defeats that. Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957 FREE trial: cPanel VPS with unmetered bandwidth http://UnmeteredVPS.net/cpanel