danaketh wrote:
Hi,
the first choice is probably the best for you. When you think about
second solution, it will be a nightmare when you have 1000+ databases
and have to administrate them from one central system (if you're about
to do it like this). The third solution looks little complicated to me -
have one DB for comments, one for items etc.
But you can do it also in one database and six tables. Make one table
'blogs' where the blogs names and ids will be stored. Then you can just
add one more field 'blog_id' to every table and identify items,
categories, whatever on this. However in your situation (1000+ blogs) it
may be not the best solution.
That alternate option is the easiest to manage, but since you make no mention
of WHICH database engine which is best would be affected by that choice. And
how you are hosting the site(s) may also limit your options. Properly indexed
tables will be fast and a single connection accessing that data will be faster
than having to make multiple connections to different databases, and if it
only has to manage a small number of table most links would probably be cached.
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