Comments on: phpBB is a Piece of Feces and May Be the Bane of My Existance http://blog.ryantoohil.com/2008/04/phpbb-is-a-piece-of-feces-and-may-be-the-bane-of-my-existance.php Stuff. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:43:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ryan Toohil http://blog.ryantoohil.com/2008/04/phpbb-is-a-piece-of-feces-and-may-be-the-bane-of-my-existance.php/comment-page-1#comment-15874 Ryan Toohil Sat, 10 May 2008 14:13:23 +0000 http://blog.ryantoohil.com/?p=267#comment-15874 'tis a good point. One of the big problems we run into with MySQL is that it's our one-size-fits-all solution for both our corporate databases and our customer mysql databases. On our corporate databases, we can at least concentrate on optimizing performance, since it's a smaller subset of databases and tables. For customer databases, we're at the mercy of our customers who have no idea what they're doing and setup million row tables with no indexes that do full table scans on each query. It'd be one thing if free apps like phpBB and Wordpress mitigated the issue with smart queries, table design, and indexes, but they don't. They're so focused on the code (PHP) side of things that they completely overlook the performance aspect. I'm guessing a big reason for this is that the development is always done on local/undertaxed systems. That's why there's a cottage industry designed out of improving Wordpress performance as well. ’tis a good point.

One of the big problems we run into with MySQL is that it’s our one-size-fits-all solution for both our corporate databases and our customer mysql databases.

On our corporate databases, we can at least concentrate on optimizing performance, since it’s a smaller subset of databases and tables.

For customer databases, we’re at the mercy of our customers who have no idea what they’re doing and setup million row tables with no indexes that do full table scans on each query. It’d be one thing if free apps like phpBB and WordPress mitigated the issue with smart queries, table design, and indexes, but they don’t. They’re so focused on the code (PHP) side of things that they completely overlook the performance aspect. I’m guessing a big reason for this is that the development is always done on local/undertaxed systems.

That’s why there’s a cottage industry designed out of improving WordPress performance as well.

]]> By: Tod http://blog.ryantoohil.com/2008/04/phpbb-is-a-piece-of-feces-and-may-be-the-bane-of-my-existance.php/comment-page-1#comment-15870 Tod Wed, 07 May 2008 14:04:33 +0000 http://blog.ryantoohil.com/?p=267#comment-15870 It seems to me a lot of free software really doesn't scale well, databases especially. When you figure it's dirt cheap to build a box that will move 50MB/sec from disk to memory or vice versa, and only a few thousand bucks to build one that will do hundreds of MB/sec, then you look at free SQL DB performance, it's like whaaaaa? Maybe the industry will move towards more custom DB solutions since most of the time you only need a small number of queries and it's really not that hard to just 'write the code'. It seems to me a lot of free software really doesn’t scale well, databases especially. When you figure it’s dirt cheap to build a box that will move 50MB/sec from disk to memory or vice versa, and only a few thousand bucks to build one that will do hundreds of MB/sec, then you look at free SQL DB performance, it’s like whaaaaa?

Maybe the industry will move towards more custom DB solutions since most of the time you only need a small number of queries and it’s really not that hard to just ‘write the code’.

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