RE: [phplib] Re: The future of PHPlib From: Jonathan Tullett (jtullett <email protected>)
Date: 04/18/01

Hiya,

> That is not to say that one cannot use PHP on a high-volume site. The
> site http://www.amihotornot.com/ is very high volume, and runs on PHP
> and MySQL. They use cached DB and multiple hosts, though. There's an
> article about it in the latest Software Development magazine (print).
At the company where I work, we run the website http://www.advfn.com/
which (currently, but is always increasing) gets around 1.6 million hits a
day.

The site is 98% written in PHP (with a few perl backends) running on a
mixture of sybase, postgres and mysql databases, and doesnt have many
performance problems.

We have 7 proxy servers, which are all either dual p3 733 or dual p3
833 which arent exactly top of the range.

> If you are Yahoo! with over a million hits a day, you probably have the
> money to buy the best hardware and the best application servers, so you
> probably won't be using PHPLIB anyway.
We are moving our wap / mobile / pda sites over to PHPlib primarily for
the template classes, though it is possible that we may use the
authentication stuff too, im not forseeing too many performance problems
due to using this...

> say that PHP and PHPLIB could run something like Amazon.com or Yahoo!
> without excessive hardware costs to keep the performance up.
As per my comments above, and without wanting to stoke a holy war, I
disagree with the above... 

--
Jonathan Tullett
Systems Administrator

 A group of chess enthusiasts had checked into a hotel, and were standing
in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an
hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. 'But
why?', they asked, as they moved off. 'Because,' he said, 'I can't stand
chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.'

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