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		brador on Sept 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Client asks for 100% uptime Yup, this is what I'd do. Mirroring would be the big issue, but not that big a deal unless data was time critical.

ck2 on Sept 30, 2011 [–]

Sites with large amounts of data do this in realtime all the time.

WordPress.com for example has five mirrors (maybe more by now).

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