OT: why are LAMP sites slow?

[Jeremy Bowers]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:50:16 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote:
> I understood the Twisted suggestion as meaning avoiding database
> traffic by keeping both user and server state resident in the
> application.  Yes, if you use a database for that, you get multiple
> app servers instead of a heavily loaded centralized one.  But you now
> have a heavily loaded centralized database server instead.  You
> haven't really solved your scaling problem, you've just moved it back
> a layer.

True, but my understanding is that there are load balancing solutions for
database servers too, so in this case moving the problem back one level
actually can be progress.

But I have no experience with this, so I have no idea how well it works.