This tutorial uses as it's basis a MySQL 2 server replication system. The reader should be familiar with the implementation and management of such a configuration.

The MySQL replication system provides an easily to implement alternative to true clustering, but is limited in the fact that it allows only a single read-write node in it's configuration. Updates are spawned almost simultaneously to all other nodes. If the goal of the configuration is to delegate server load by running resource-intensive, expensive queries to a secondary machine, this can be achieved simply using the ADOdb Load Balancer (ADB).