Re: How should I cache database data for php?

> > Even with straight HTML, a server's load capacity is not infinite. If > > my own server, an old Pentium with 4 GB of hard drive space, and which > > serves nothing but static HTML pages, got hit with more than a couple > > hundred hits in a short period of time, it would bomb. > > > > I must be misunderstanding your question. I've re-read your original > > post, and it seems to me that what you're trying to do is save > > webpage-bound database data in a way which will seriously reduce the > > load on a webserver; creating static HTML pages from database data > > instead of building pages dynamically when the user calls them would > > accomplish that goal, and that is what I was suggesting. > > You are right ;) er, yes and no! Jeff's original post mentioned reducing load on the db server - are the db and web servers on the same physical device - and thus his concern? - or perhaps if there are other apps needing to 'compete' with the web server to gain access to the db concurrently? =dn