To build a distributed environment, fully redundant and scalable is not easy and can be expensive! One of the simplest way is to build on top of Amazon’s S3 and EC2. It’s supposedly to be cost effective (pay-as-you-go) and reliable (long awaited release of their SLA). Though I kind of doubt that you can push MySQL onto Amazon’s services.

Now, there’s an alternative to that solution; much easier and more flexible to your own needs.

Kevin Evans (aka kevev) is heading to build a Linux Apache MySQL and PHP/Python/Perl (LAMP) P2P solution naturally called P2PLAMP. The whole idea behind this initiative is to create a clustered version of the Linux OS function as a very robust and fast web server. The nature of its distribution is based on an industrial grade clustered distributed filesystem - GlusterFS - which is managed solely by ZResearch with the support of the Gluster community.

And the best is…its all in the name of Open Source Software.