Re: High bandwidth application tips

"Luis Lebron" <llebron@sigmatech.com> wrote in message news:CE5C3E60DCF0D5118C7F00A0C9EBCE23041593@SIGMA2... > I have been coding php for a few years now, but I haven't build a "high > bandwidth" application. I am currently working on an application for a > customer that may have a very large amount of users (10,000 or more > according to the customer). Are there any good reference books, articles > and general information on building such a site. I have been "googling" for > a while but have found anything on this particular topic. Well, here are some, somewhat ordered by importance: * use recent mysql 4.x The new versions have ability to cache results of often used queries, and return the results very fast without even touching the disk. Note that this is much better for web apps than usual query cacheing that many databases offer. * mark directories with static images as cacheabe. * use page output compression on your pages. * if you have some parts of the page(s) that are expensive to calculate introduce some cacheing mechanic in your app. rush -- http://www.templatetamer.com/