Hello,
I just took over and restructured an existing web site
running on IIS/PHP/ODBC/MS Access.
The site is up and running now (thanks to your help too..), but now
the customer is speaking of adding MUCH more content to the database,
(~10/50x increase) and to add search capability all over its content...
making it faster at the same time.
I have already started to explain that MS Access just won't scale
enough to satisfy his needs (sometimes even the current database
is too slow...), and that we might be forced to migrate to PHP/MySQL.
However, the customer is afraid of going offline too long, and he's
somehow hard to convince that MS isn't the answer to all problems
in the world, so asked for evidence.
Since I can't rebuild the site from scratch just as a demo, (not
enough time, and lack of a real server to show it on)
I'd like to know from you:
1) Any real life experience you have on this: have you already ported
databases from Access to Mysql on PHP sites, and how much did the
performance increase (due only to this of course)?
2) Any benchmark available online on this. Myself, I know I can trust
you, but the customer will be much easier to persuade if he can
read online some actual numbers by independent reviewers (**).
TIA,
mweb
(**) Meaning not on the PHP/MYSQL pages, if possible
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