Ryan A wrote:
Hey,
I have been asked to make a site that would be pretty high traffic...
quantify 'high traffic'.
problem is, no MySql.
you might consider telling the client that the implementation of a high traffic
site should not be constrained from the outset by something as petty as
MySQL not being installed?
but really it's not such a problem if you consider the possibilities of
caching generated output, possibly even using something like Squid in
reverse-proxy-cache mode (or what ever they call it).
then you have things like the APC for caching data/stuff in shared memory
(and caching compiled php files) ... oh and APC kicks ass :-)
and if your on a *nix system don't forget that you have tmpfs, usually
found at /dev/shm - which is ammounts to a RAM disk, i.e. disk IO is pretty
quick ;-)
so plenty of ways of going fast without a DB.
Although i have messed around with php's file and directory commands I have
never really made anything "really big" using them, I always used MySql,
here I dont have that choice as the server itself does not have MySql
installed.
After a bit of seaching on the SEs I found quite a few links to have text
databases and have kind of settled on this one:
PHP Text DB (http://www.c-worker.ch/txtdbapi/index_eng.php)
did you consider the sqlite extension already?
If anybody has any experience using the above, or would rather recommend
another I would appreciate a reply from you.
As usual; any advise / links would also be appreciated.
Thanks,
Ryan
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