Selecting Platform for your MySQL server.

Peter Zaitsev

Almost every project using MySQL needs at some point to decide which Platform to use for MySQL to achieve required performance and redundancy as well as meet the budget.

The selection can be divided into two phases: to selection of the operating system and to the selection of the hardware it runs.

In his article Peter Zaitsev provides basic guidelines on selecting platform for MySQL. You can read his article at
http://www.mysql.com/articles/mysql_platform_selection.html