Hi Gary

Perhaps I should have posted to the NZ Delphi users group :)

Thanks for your help.

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Rob Martin
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Wild Software Ltd



Gary T. Benner wrote:

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> HI Robert,
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> At 10:39 on 13/05/2008 you wrote
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>> I don't know a whole lot about web sites but thought a 1000+ hits a >second was quite large, don't really know. SS Sounds good, esp when 3.0 >is released (been waiting for this baby).
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> Any analysis of web site use has to be done carefully as 1000 online users does not equate to 1000 hits a second - more likely 50 - 80 depending on the site - and also remember the difference between hits and sessions. Where the webserver serves PHP pages and other files (images), the latter can be quite easily moved to a "media server" so as to leave your DB server alone.
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> Personally I use FB with S/S on large sites with no issue.
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> However with FB and IB going >different ways do you think there might be future issues with the native >IB drivers in PHP?
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> The basics won't change, and most people still only use the basics. And who knows what Embarcadero will do????
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> The only issue I've found is with blobs ( make sure you have the latest version of PHP - there were some dicky ones a while back that stuffed up blob access ).
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>> I think I tried the PDO driver but it was DOA (i.e. I couldn't even >connect).
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>> FB is sounding like its the go :)
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> Agreed!
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> kr
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> gary
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