The efficiency of your SQL will be an extrmely important factor. Spend AMPLE time
planning the structure of your database and make sure to optimize yor production SQL
code.
I have a server with 8 processors and 2 gigs of ram sitting on it and 2 or 3 bad join
statements made it work like an old pentium.
Aaron
>
> Obviously the faster the better, but 60,000 page views a day is nothing. I
> run a dual P2 450, Raid 5 HD array with 512 megs of RAM, which is a pretty
> sizable server (nothing massive) and I get about 45,000 "hits" a day and
> the CPU PEAKS at about 2-3%.
>
> PHP/MySQL are pretty scalable. You have more CPU to worry about through
> PHP then MySQL unless you have some wild data, I'm sure you'll be fine.
>
> At 09:00 PM 1/12/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >Ok, I'm starting to design a PHP/mySQL web site that will house about 6-8
> >tables, lot of relation stuff, very dynamic output to the web visitors. My
> >worry is performance. By doing authentication via comparing a member's
> >profile to the record he want to read in the db and all that other fun
> >mySQL stuff I'm truly petrified that performance will be slow.
> >
> >Currently we get about 1300 visitors a day but that's been doubling every
> >few months. During our high point (near our own technology trade show) we
> >get even more.
> >
> >So now that we should be getting some funds to buy a new tower what are
> >the most important specs? Should I get a dual processor, RAID hard drives,
> >gig of RAM. What's the best set up for a PHP/mySQL web server for approx
> >60,000 page views and 1300 visitors per day?
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >Mike
>
>
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