Posted by J.O. Aho on 02/11/06 00:52

Brad wrote:
> Thanks, JJ.
>
> The main issue I have questions about is scalability. ASP.NET can use the
> framework, all the powers of an enterprise-level database like SQL Server,
> streamlined code found in ADO.NET, and the ability to upscale the whole
> solution to a server farm with load balancing and fail overs in the future
> if needed. We're looking at having > 1M visitors/mo in 3 years.
>
> Does PHP/MySQL have that kind of scalability? If money is not an issue,
> which it isn't in this case, would you have a preference?

PHP don't have any issues, see the big sites like google.com, think they beat
that 1M visitors each day.
When it comes to MySQL much depends on the version and how your sql queries
looks like. MySQL has the power to serve many visitors with needed data and in
many cases would outperform MS-SQL.

If money ain't the case, then look into Oracle, it's more or less the king of
databases, don't think it's that much more expensive than MS-SQL when looking
at single CPU system (Oracle commercial use license is based on # of CPUs).


//Aho

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