Network connectivity speed doesn’t always mean you get the fastest web site loading time if you are hosting your site on a high-speed up link. There are many other factors that will slow down or increase your web server response latency.
For example web site caching can be done locally (dynamic data pre-generated) or static content distributed via alternative caching methods – reverse proxies, content delivery networks and such mehods.
Bulletproof hosting is hosting that withstands high amount of web requests in short time interval. This is also known as a Slashdot effect – your web site or page is linked from a very popular portal and thousands of visitors go to your web site causing high amount of web requests. This usually slows down your web site and usually your site is unreachable – server doesn’t have enough resources to serve all requests.
This is very load balancing and clustering comes in – you share the load between multiple hardware boxes, thus your web site is accessible even it’s accessed by thousands of simultaneous web users.
Load is usually balanced in the front-end, thus the backend database is still one or it could be a cluster of databases.
Many of our blog readers are asking if Cpanel or any other control panel is good for very high bandwidth and load hosting. I will disappoint you – no it’s not. It has too much whistles and features that’s simply not needed for high bandwidth web site hosting. Too many modules etc and getting rid of some modules may easily break your control panel software.
You LAMP box and enjoy the best performance, or even use nginx or cherokee as a front-end web server doing load balancing and static content serving.
MySQL is considered today as the best for its performance as the system is popular for its open source database using Structured Query Language, or SQL for its operation. The databases allow you for central collection of data like blog, location of files or members database to forum. The programming languages PHP organizes the database. MySQL is also widely accepted as an efficient, reliable and fast system using relationship to plan and organize data.
Earlier websites were composed of html pages which contained all the data on an individual page. Now, you can find the large portions of website stored in a single MySQL database. When you have MySQL you can work with any major programming language and you can install MySQL on major operating systems. As it is an open source component of LAMP, it is improved in security and operation and is available free of cost. You can use MySQL for most of the popular softwares which operate on the web server. By installing MySQL you can have free access to the programs. To organize the site’s content by database, you can change design of the web site without touching the content. You can learn MySQL on a clean server without losing the data. You can make enquiries whether MySQL is installed in default by the server. When MySQL is not there in the server, you can be download the MySQL from the company and install it yourself.
If you are a new web administrator you can study the detailed manual provided by MySQL AB Company to know more about the software. This manual will be of great help to you in solving the problems. With MySQL, you can index, manage and store the data in database more efficiently. PHP has an integrated and custom MySQL module and communicates with MySQL in an efficient manner. Hence, if you have websites scripted by PHP you can use MySQL database for better performance. The communication between PHP and MySQL is also possible through standard ODBC. MySQL is also very popular as it is ODBC compliant. You can use PHP for connecting with a MySQL database and execute SQL statements. It is easy for you start session with MySQL. You have to first simply connect to MySQL server. Then you have to specify the database in MySQL server for operation. The light and fast database server MySQL has been designed and built to suit high speed tracks. As a prevalent database, MySQL is the best option and feasible method for you to suit your needs.
Running a small blogs on your multiple domain name account should be no problem as long as it’s not very popular. You can set-up multiple wordpress blogs even if you have allocated one MySQL database – you will need to define the prefix for the tables. The prefix should be different for each of your wordpress blogs, if you are using one mysql database. You can configure this prefix in wp-config.php file
the default:
$table_prefix = ‘wp_’;
if you plan on having two different wordpress blogs in the same MySQL DB, then specify
$table_prefix = ‘wp_’;
for the first blog, and for second
$table_prefix = ‘wp2_’;
And you should be set-up and running without any problem.