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This post will be about benchmarking of MySQL Persistent Connections vs Non-Persistent Connections -- what always seems to be a hot topic among PHPers about what connection type to use when connection to a MySQL database...

This article is intended to highlight various basic topics concerning proper methods of handling connections to MySQL databases in PHP, guidelines for caching dynamic content, and a technique called "lazy loading". Hopefully by the end of the article you'll have learned how to combat a very widespread and potentially devastating scalability problem seen in an enormous number of PHP web applications...

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Speed up mysql tmp table creation by putting it in the ramdisk...

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Due to the way Innodb tables are structured, you cannot perform a hotback up of this database without using third party tools. Therefore you must take your database offline for a small period of time while you take the backup...