I am building a url shortener and I use InnoDB as the storage engine for link data. I will start with a single VPS containing both application instance and MySQL database instance on the same Virtual Machine. I want the application to be easily scalable, I want to be able to add new nodes and make the system perform better as easily as possible when needed.
I have been reading about MySQL Cluster and MySQL Replication, but I haven't been able to decide on which one to use. You can imagine that (a popular) url shortener will be both write and read intensive. What is the structure that you would use in such a case? Would you go for cluster or replication?
Then based on the choice of cluster or replication, what is the infrastructure/configuration that I am supposed to have in order to be able to expand from a single innoDB engined Database to a cluster or replication structure? I want to start correctly, I don't want to be stucked in a situation where I can not expand/improve the database system when I need to.
Thanks A lot
sr.