Well, I know from experience this: PHP 3 and 4.various, sessions enabled on every page (using DB to store) MySQL 3.23.various Apache 1.2.various 300,000 users in the DB 2600 dynamic pages No images or static multimedia content (on this server) PC, Dual 800Mhz 1GB Ram 4 18GB drives, 7200RPM, raided 0/1 (Mirrored) FreeBSD 4.various ~150 queries per second on mysql 1,233,771 page views in 24 hours, all served without issue. Each page ~100K Averaged 424,192 page views per day. That's just my experience. It was adcritic.com at its peak. Peter On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Peter Lovatt wrote: > Hi > > There is an article on sitepoint.com about benchmarking J2EE and .NET and > some controversy over the result > http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletters/viewissue.php?fid=3&id=3&issue=52 > > Does anybody have experience of php/MySql in comparison with either of the > above in terms of efficiency or ultimate performance? > > Is anybody interested in putting a php/MySql setup through the same > benchmarks? > > Mostly for fun, but might be useful for the 'but Open Source is not up to > Enterprise Applications' augment. > > Peter > > Mysql query blah...... > ----------------------------------------------- > Excellence in internet and open source software > ----------------------------------------------- > Sunmaia > Birmingham > UK > www.sunmaia.net > tel. 0121-242-1473 > International +44-121-242-1473 > ----------------------------------------------- > > > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Systems Engineer, Fairfax Cable Access Corporation beckman@purplecow.com http://www.purplecow.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php