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using MySQL for a large site?


dshallenberger

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I\'m building a site that has the potential for a lot of traffic. It\'s a site for posting \'for sale\' ads for anything from trinkets to houses. It\'s the internet version of a current local \'stuff-for-sale\' magazine. Well, the current magazine has about 1,500 ads in it monthly. So I would assume the potential for that many ads, and more, would be placed monthly on this site, with everyone paying with a credit card and submitting an ad, as well as contact information, that will be written to a database. Plus, every page view will pull from the database.

 

My concern is in my programming techniques and using mysql for a site with this much traffic. Is using basic php and sql to connect to the database and read/write ok? Should I be using a different database? or a different way to connect and/or read/write? is there a limit to open connections for mysql? or general techniques for higher-traffic sites?

 

I\'ve written a lot of PHP and SQL interacting with mysql, but all somewhat basic/intermediate usage and much lower traffic. Does any of this make a difference?

 

Thanks for any advice...

Dan

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Nice thread link,

 

 

on that note, MySQL will easily handed 1500 a DAY transactions, 1500 a month is hardly big,

 

My Uncle who is a Computer Engineer in England is the only person I know who does tasks greater then MySQL can handle, He uses Orical, since the company he works for handles 10-25 Million transactions a day,

 

My former university ran completly on MySQL, during registration thats 5000+ students online signing up for 5-10 courses,

 

which is intencive insert / drop / update queries, rarely did we experience slow downs from the DB, just poor ASP programming HA!.

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