* Eric Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-28 01:04]: > The thought of using something other than MySQL has crossed my mind. > But I'm trying not to stray to far from what I already know. I > usually farm out the server maintenance to another company but I > decided to do it myself on this project. So I've chosen OpenBSD as > the platform to go with. Changing to PostgreSQL or any other database > would add to much extra time to the project and would probably cause > me to miss my deadlines. MySQL has been very good to me in the past, > but I never had to worry about the OS underneath it till now.
it is highly unlikely that you will have to worry. given the usual fiddling with the config file you need to do to get mysql be a bit less sluggis under load, you can do very very very high query rates and stuff. there is a load pattern at extremely high load where our thread model doesn't work all that well for mysql; bets are you will not hit it. -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)