[Rails] question about host web based application using rails

[Carl Youngblood]

Carl Youngblood wrote:

> Joe Van Dyk wrote:
>
>> Why do you think you need multiple databases?
>>
> Transferring user data to a different server when load got too high 
> had too be accomplished programmatically, since we had inter-server 
> transactions in MySQL.

Correction: we had _no_ inter-server transactions in MySQL.  In fact, at 
the time MySQL didn't have transactions period, other than with table 
locking.