On 2/8/12 4:37 PM, Steve Alligood wrote: > In the past, I have done a lot of work with ISPs and shared hosting, > etc, and most of their setups are single server, doing mysql for their > pet blog. A lot of this opensource stuff used InnoDB simply because it > looks cool or the book they bought says to use it, and it causes a lot > of issues due to not being setup very well, which causes issues for > other users as MySQl doesn't expect to have thousands of databases all > doing InnoDB poorly, and when the inevitable crash comes it doesn't > bother to tell you which user, which database, or which table, just a > memory pagedump, which can be very annoying playing "to whom does the > wordpress data belong to".
I can agree with that. If you're on a shared host, or a minimal virtual server, MyISAM is probably easier. MyISAM also requires less tweaking to get the best performance out of it. Steve /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
