morbiuswilters - Thanks. This is helpful information. The best I've had all week.
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RE: How much can PHP / MySQL handle?
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RE: How much can PHP / MySQL handle?
I know. I read that, but it wasn't really helpful for my question. The load will be considerably more for this project, especially as we grow. Everyone says PHP and MySQL are scalable, but what does that mean, really? Everything has it's limits. I'm trying to figure out if anybody really knows what that limit is -- i.e. an actual number.
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RE: How much can PHP / MySQL handle?
True, but I'm not a non-technical person. I've programmed in Perl, Java, C++ and PHP, and have a bachelor's in CS, so I'm not a dummy. But I'm also not a software developer. The fact is, we need to hire someone who is at a higher level to help us, and will have to just to the best we can. I will definitely hire carefully. Thanks for the advice.
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How much can PHP / MySQL handle?
I'm the web manager of a small but growing company and am seeking advice on which direction to take us in. We want to expand our current website into a community site that will pull customer records from our e-commerce system that was just designed for us. We will pull over the customer data into our own database on the community side. The e-commerce uses Java and Oracle.
We currently get 75,000 visits per month (500,000 hits), with 5,000 visits on our busiest day of the week. If in 5 years we grow to 160,000 on our busiest day, will PHP and MySQL still be able to handle the load? Just slap me if I'm stupid, but isn't Word Press (96 million visits per month) written in PHP with a MySQL database, or is that just a nasty rumor? Also, I heard that Wikipedia uses PHP and MySQL.
If MySQL is a problem, I could use PHP with SQL Server too, right?
.NET is also an option but I'd like to use PHP if I can. Just personal preference, and we have had a bad experience with our current e-commerce website built with .NET.
I've done some research and one conclusion is that it's the skill of the developer that is most important, not the platform.
We currently have a forum in .NET and have been using SQL Server for online forms, etc., and our websites are written in both PHP and ASP, so we really have a mixed bag right now that needs to be cleaned up and standardized. I want to make the right decision before we start moving full force in one direction.