# Infrastructure suggestions

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/infrastructure-suggestions/3048>\
**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions\
**Created:** [October 30, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/infrastructure-suggestions/3048 "2013-10-30T03:22:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/infrastructure-suggestions/3048/1 "2013-10-30T03:22:12Z")

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I am designing our new hosting solution and would like some suggestions on the best High Availability solution for our databases. This is our current use case:

> 80:20 Read : Write ratio  
> Currently all tables are MyIsam with a few (key) tables with FULLTEXT indexes  
> Hosting is in the cloud so would like minimal downtime for failover  
> Cannot change our existing applications to support multiple IPs to connect to

I was originally looking at using Percona Server Cluster and converting all the MyIsam tables to INNODB. But the constraint on the FULLTEXT index is posing an issue as I currently can’t change that in the application.

My other idea was to use Master → Slave with server 5.6 and convert to INNODB (as 5.6 has FULLTEXT) - but not sure if this would be the best approach?

Any help or suggestions are very welcome.

Thanks for your time