Re: Will MySQL_Linux_Apache handle Yahoo level traffic & data?

2001-03-20 Thread tmb
Jeremy, Thanks for the info. Do you happen to know how many actual hits a Yahoo or eBay or Google get each day? According to http://us.mediametrix.com/data/thetop.jsp Yahoo had about 60 million "unique visitors" in Feb Google had about 10 million eBay was in the middle Unique Visitor is the c

Re: Will MySQL_Linux_Apache handle Yahoo level traffic & data?

2001-03-19 Thread Jeremy D. Zawodny
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 06:05:47AM -0800, tmb wrote: > I'm a newbie to the Linux-Apache+MySQL world. > > 1 - Will MySQL handle a data base as large as a Yahoo or Google or > E-Bay ? Done properly, yes. > 2 - Will MySQL running on a Linux/Apache system handle traffic that > approaches that of a

RE: Will MySQL_Linux_Apache handle Yahoo level traffic & data?

2001-03-19 Thread Cal Evans
Welcome! 1: You'll have to be more specific than that. How many tables/records per table are you looking to store? Are you wanting to optimize it for querying or is it going to be an active database with heavy inserting/updating? 2: That depends on the hardware you run it on. Technically, yes,