On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 08:01:35PM +0200, Nicolas Bougues wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 01:42:12PM -0400, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > > > > While he may still need a large amount of DB muscle for other things, > > using PHP/MySQL sessions for a site that really expects to have 30,000 > > different HTTP clients at peak instants is not very bright. We have > > cookies for this. Server-side sessions are a great fallback for > > paranoid end-users who disable cookies in their browser, but it is my > > understanding that PHP relies on a cookie-based session ID anyway? > > What's not very bright is rather using MySQL in a somewhat audacious > configuration, for which support is quite recent (and thus, probably > not bugfree). In a high load / high availability environnement.
What's the recent stuff you speak of? Replication has been in MySQL for about 1.5 years now. > An Oracle would probably be better here. At least, it has proven > replication mechanisms. I wonder what the license costs would be in that situation? Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
