Running behind a load balancer?

[kilburn]

Not really. DRBD has gotten much hype lately, so I would probably try to set it up over this. In fact, I would try to setup two failover NFS servers with the underliying block device being a DRBD device (synchronous if you've a fast network, non-synchronous if you haven't).

I'm not even close to being an NFS expert though, so it may be some better way to achieve the same by just using it's failover facilities (I know it has something, but I don't know what it exactly is...)

On the mysql front, I've heard good things about just mounting a DRBD block device as /var/lib/mysql, and using a master-failover setup. No load balancing with this solution though...