Re: A new host compagny for my site

In article <bpch4j$ef5$1-111RdWWlOxkOkXtL6OYfHgC/[email protected]>, "Diamonddogs" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi,
>A last question.
>I'm "hunting" for a new host but i want to know something about connections.
>Is one member login = 1 connection or more?
>An anonymous = 1 connection also i suppose, no?
>If a member (or an anonymous) is login xaraya AND ipb for example it's only
>one connection or two?
>Thanx
>Chris
>
Normally, a new database connection is opened for each page request, and
it's closed again when the page request is processed. So at any time, you
should have as many database connections open (for your site) as there are
page requests being executed at that moment.

PHP also supports persistent connection to Mysql, with mysql_pconnect. In
that case, the database connection is not closed at the end of the page
request, but it's kept open for the next page request. This is OK as long as
you're alone on that server, but it's not something you want to use when there
are many sites running on the same server. Therefore, Xaraya does not use
persistent connections.

I don't know ipb, so I don't know which kind of connections it uses - might
be worth checking out.

Mike.