On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 18:22, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:16:13PM +0000, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 16:30, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > > > > Scalable how? It's certainly capable of serving millions of hits a day. > > > The article on amihotornot's creation is worth a read, and that's a > > > LAMPHP site, http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/05/hong/ > > > > Yeah, and I remember the hell he went through when he first got > > real traffic to his site. > > And...? Did PHP prevent it scaling? Or prevent it being maintainable?
He was hammering MySQL. Lots of updating of tables. Decent hardware, more memory, delayed updates and vertical partitioning (read-only tables and squiddly little frequently updated tables) got him rolling. ISTR. PHP is pretty good at being front-facing, being much lighter than mod_perl, but that can also lead to CPU chewing. I'm a big fan of limited numbers of apache processes at the backend!
