Re: FN-FORUM At Last Some Possible Work Available

date posted 11th December 2001 23:48

Interesting. We have pretty much the whole range of options covered in
the last 3 emails, with one exception.

I'd suggest Win2k & PHP (especially with the release of 4.1.0), with a
MySQL database. Why? Because if you use Win2k AS you can scale the front
end without any special hardware; if you're really going to have 10m
records its going to be a busy site and you'll need more than one web
server. If you choose the hardware for the MySQL server correctly you
shouldn't need to touch that, bar adding more memory (tho with prices
the way they are atm there's little reason not to put the max in now).
The replication features in MySQL are getting better all the time, so by
the time you might possibly need another database server there'll be
plenty of options - not least just a faster server. I'd suggest FreeBSD
for the db server.

-C