NYCPHP Meetup

[Mitch Pirtle]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:13 AM, John Campbell <jcampbell1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Aaron Deutsch <aaron at aarond.com> wrote:
>> I always seem to have slow MySQL databases with my reseller and shared
>> hosting. Is there such a thing as MySQL only hosting?  If so any
>> recommendations?
>
> Your database should be located in the same datacenter as your
> application code, otherwise you are going to be in a world of hurt...
> imagine doing 10 synchronous queries with 100ms of connection latency.
>  If you are using something like CakePHP, your application could be
> doing 100's of queries per page view.
>
> I really like Slicehost if you want something cheap.  You get a Xen
> instance starting at $20 a month, and you can upgrade the instance or
> add instances with about 2 mouse clicks.

Agreed on that approach for small sites, and also can recommend
ServerBeach for dedicated hosting. For a couple hundred bucks you can
get a dual, dual-cpu system more than capable of running everything
for moderate sites.

-- Mitch