Which server setup is more beneficial?

Hi,

I'm planning our next server upgrade for evolutionm.net (just in case we need it) and would like to get the opinions of everyone on WHT.

We want to eventually move to the following setup:

- 1 database server
- 2 web servers

Our site uses vBulletin and is heavily database dependent. Basically every page on the site is in php and accesses the mysql database for something.

Would it be more beneficial to have all our scripts/html files, etc loaded on one of the web servers while the other one hosted images and uploads, etc

OR

would it be more beneficial to have one web server dedicated for our forums, while the other server handles our regular web pages?

It seems like the forums are what really put the load on our site, so splitting that to one server might be beneficial, no?

Thanks,

Mark

 

 

 

 

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