RE: [PHP] dynamic website
| From: | Don Read | Date: | Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:58:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] dynamic website | ||
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On 25-Sep-2002 Donahue Ben wrote:
> I have a general question of a dynamic website using
> PHP4 and mysql database. If there are many, many
> users visiting a dynamic website at once, will it
> cause the database to be bogged down with so many
> users visiting the website? If so, how do you around
> this problem.
>
Yes it could.
To get around it : benchmark & optimize your indexes and queries.
Check into using persistant connections, it is normally a good idea in
general -but watch out that you don't exhaust kernel resources ...
Regards,
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