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Howdy,
can i have a single instance of virtualmin manage a bunch of servers?
Well, not so much, but you may want to take a peek at Cloudmin, which was designed to handle that particular problem:
http://www.virtualmin.com/about-cloudmin
what's the recommended approach if I have mysql and apache split onto separate servers?
It actually shouldn't be too difficult to move MySQL to another server.
What I'd do is put Virtualmin on your server running Apache. Then, setup your server running MySQL so that MySQL can accept connections from your Apache/Virtualmin server.
You can then configure Virtualmin to be able to remotely manage your MySQL database by logging into Virtualmin, then clicking Webmin -> Servers -> MySQL Database -> Module Config -> System Configuration. Then on that screen, you can choose a different MySQL hostname and/or port.
Some other folks were attempting to tackle the problem of redundancy and high availability recently... you may be interested in this post here:
https://www.virtualmin.com/node/15192
I hope that helps!
-Eric
This sounds good, thank you. I may go with a simpler architecture that is vertical.