Are there significant differences between versions 5.1 and 5.5?
The server in question is used to host a medium-sized vBulletin forum.
The main benefit of 5.1 is it's available through apt-get.
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Are there significant differences between versions 5.1 and 5.5?
The server in question is used to host a medium-sized vBulletin forum.
The main benefit of 5.1 is it's available through apt-get.
Best Answer
These days, you can use MySQL 5.5 now. I have 5.5.9 in production right now and it's running great.
I have successfully scaled MySQL 5.5 with simple circular replication amonst 3 DB Servers. Here is the layout of each DB server and what's running
/etc/my.cnf has the following
Each MySQL Server contains
After 1 year, it still runs like a dream because of using MySQL 5.5 and getting InnoDB to engage all 12 CPUs.
So, I am quite happy with its performance thus far and so it the client.