John McCormac wrote:
> While MySQL and PHP can produce excellent results in the right hands,
> the current set up would falter if it gets any serious traffic. The
/. gets serious traffic, yes? they use mysql.
> ACS/Aolserver/Oracle path being pursued (? ;-) ) by online.ie is the
> only way to go for a serious portal site. At the moment, the only way
the net is full of exceptions to this "rule." one could equally argue
that solaris is better then linux for serious portal sites, but the fact
is that a portal site isn't going to make heavy demands on a server or
db if it's designed correctly (s/w and system). mysql can well surpass
oracle in terms of speed in the subset of things that it can do.
> out of it is to replicate the db/website using a round robin DNS system
> and have a centralised database update. (I think I saw a program for
> allowing a satellite MySQL db system that would work on Freshmeat a few
> weeks ago.)
i also think i saw a link for a mysql cluster on this list a few weeks
ago.
> Some of the framing techniques used by Unison left some rather
> exploitable PHP holes. The best one was an URL that apparently was
> Unison but it was framing www.playboy.com.
not updating software properly is an indictment of the admin staff, not
the software itself. i'm not a php fan, but i won't knock it because
patches weren't applied or it wasn't used properly.
kevin
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