importing aditional database info. whats the limit?

[elliotmason]

Hello,

 

I am trying to intergrate lot of different areas to my site and get them all working off the same login.

 

 

I already have wordpress on its way, phpbb I am thinking of doing next and I also have a third party directory I want to intergrate.

 

 

Is there a limit to the amount of data an SQL database can handle if I insert all these databases. Will it run slower or just topple over and die?

 

 

your thoughts would be appreciated.

 

 

EM

[Gil_e_n]

That depends on the server you're on, on how optimized your queries are, etc. My feeling is that, while you can probably integrate wordpress pretty easily, even on a shared server, I'd be more careful with phpbb. I'm not familiar with it personally, but my understanding is that it tends to have high CPU usage, and a lot of webhosts tend to kick the people who use it to their own server. Of course, it depends on how big the forum would be - if you have one or two people posting in it a week, I doubt you'd have any problem. If you have 10,000, you would have a problem. Similarly, with the directory, it depends entirely on how big it would be, how many people would be browsing it, and how optimized the queries are. I've been playing with a shared database for osc and wordpress in my test without problems, though.

 

Disclaimer: I'm not an expert with SQL. By any means.

[elliotmason]

well, thank you again.