I'm close to finishing-up a WEB app (PHP + mysql website portal), which will start slowly, as in uploading few pictures and inserting few rows in main database table, but soon, and over few years, I expect it to grow steadily and even logaritmically at some point.
By my Excel calculations, at some point, the database table data + indexes (innoDB) will overgrow the size of hosted pictures by a factor of 10, but in the beginning it will be the other way round.
So basically my portal hosts pictures (medium size jpegs let's say) and uses MySql InnoDB database tables.
My question to you all admins and professionals is about my MySql Database.
I'm thinking in advance so I don't get caught unprepared :
When my database will grow more and even get 1.2TB or 2TB or more....how can I deal with that ? Can I say split it on 2 or more dedicated machines so searches will still be fast and getting data from this big database ? Or shall I do 1 server and pump it up with a lot of cheap 7200 rpm sata ? or what can be the solution to a growing database.
My first configuration for this web-app is a VPS - SSD hosting with a 4ghz processor, 3GB of ram and 2x60 GB SSD raid 1.
thanks for your answers,
