From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 11 21:40:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.az.home.com (ha1.rdc1.az.home.com [24.1.240.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3F6F156ED for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 21:40:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from elgreen@iname.com) Received: from ehome.local.net ([24.9.114.169]) by mail.rdc1.az.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990812044041.FQMA27077.mail.rdc1.az.home.com@ehome.local.net> for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 21:40:41 -0700 From: Eric Lee Green Organization: Myself @ Home To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Database recomendation pls. Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 21:30:20 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <3.0.6.32.19990811231232.008bb4b0@intranet.com.mx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99081121403806.05193@ehome.local.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Jorge Biquez wrote: > using SQLServer or Oracle but pls think that here money is a problem. I > have been reading about MySql and I was wondering how strong it really is > in real life. Anyone is using it in busy environments? Go to http://www.slashdot.org and see MySql in real life. That's what they use for their back-end database, and they saturate a T1 and more. I'd call that a busy environment (though it does get slow once they get to that point, but that's more a problem with Apache, details upon request but Apache ain't the cat's meow for serving static data, especially for big files). > I have machines running FreeBSD, others with NT 4.0 IIS SP4 and others are > Macs running Webten and Webstar. I do not care to program on C or another > high level language if necessary. You probably want to use PHP3 then (http://www.php3.org ). You have to do this in order. First install MySQL and Apache, then they have a way to compile php3 as a dynamic module so that it can access PHP3. PHP3 + MySQL gives you much of the functionality of ASP without the expense. The only concern: PHP3 is not the world's fastest language, and MySQL is not the world's most-featured database (it *IS* blazingly fast though). Another possibility is to use Zope (http://www.zope.org), which uses Python and has "Database Adaptors". It is easier to set up a little web page that puts up a few database thingies, because you can just point and click on a web configurator, but I've had no success in figuring out how to program Python methods for Zope, so I haven't bothered trying to make real applications with it yet. Squishdot ( see http://www.technocrat.org ) is written using Zope. You may also want to dig around on the PHP3 web site, I think someone has released a Zope-like point-and-click front end for building PHP3-based applications that might be of use to you. Anyhow, good luck! -- Eric Lee Green http://members.tripod.com/e_l_green mail: e_l_green@hotmail.com ^^^^^^^ Burdening Microsoft with SPAM! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message