Practical Scenario: Benefits

Database resources more efficiently utilized
- With the expensive read-write queries being proxied directly to db1, all of the app/database interactions occur through local resources instead of over the network.
Effective use of frontend resources
- ip5 and ip6 continue to be email servers from midnight to noon, but all other times they will serve HTTP requests. They will only service requests originating from within the cluster (backhanded requests.)

Database resources more efficiently utilized