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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: Dreamframer on December 03, 2008, 16:13

Title: Servers have problems....
Post by: Dreamframer on December 03, 2008, 16:13

I remember that here, on this forum, someone said that microstock business will start having technical problems because todays servers can't support extremely large databases as in microstock business. Is this already happening? Seem that most big agencies have some problems...  :-\

Title: Re: Servers have problems....
Post by: GeoPappas on December 03, 2008, 16:28

Quote from: whitechild on December 03, 2008, 16:13

I remember that here, on this forum, someone said that microstock business will start having technical problems because todays servers can't support extremely large databases as in microstock business. Is this already happening? Seem that most big agencies have some problems...  :-\

I'm not sure who said that, but (if they said that) they don't know what they are talking about.

The problem with many of the sites out there is that they want to use free software (Linux, MySQL, etc).  Free software is fine for most stuff, but when a site gets large, then you should pay for the big guns.

Title: Re: Servers have problems....
Post by: Dreamframer on December 03, 2008, 16:51

Well, most servers on internet work in linux because it's more stable than windows for that purpose. So, I guess your theory doesn't hold the water