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The database doesn’t have a replica but that wouldn’t actually make it faster. The site barely stresses the database at all and only maybe 5-8% of a web request is waiting on the database.
For aliasing, sharding would make it slower. Replication would have next to no effect because you would want to work on the primary.
Plus, the server is beefy; a Xeon E5-2650 with 128GB of RAM is nothing to scoff at.
The database doesn’t have a replica but that wouldn’t actually make it faster. The site barely stresses the database at all and only maybe 5-8% of a web request is waiting on the database.
For aliasing, sharding would make it slower. Replication would have next to no effect because you would want to work on the primary.
Plus, the server is beefy; a Xeon E5-2650 with 128GB of RAM is nothing to scoff at.