I'm not sure what you're getting at. We were getting so much traffic that this setup is necessary, and now that we've scaled I'm very, very glad that we went wi

I'm not sure what you're getting at. We were getting so much traffic that this setup is necessary, and now that we've scaled I'm very, very glad that we went with this "overengineered" setup since day 1. We also never explicitly chose RAID-1; it was just the default setup that our hosting provider gave us. But yeah if you're running a blog, don't do this.