Performance tips – good reading for PHP/mysql devs
I came across this a little while ago; it’s a good little presentation with some interesting points I’d not considered before.
http://www.slideshare.net/techdude/how-to-kill-mysql-performance
If you’re an Anchor customer, I should point out that the ARCHIVE storage engine isn’t available in Redhat’s version of MySQL, which is a damned nuisance. 
Tags: benchmarking, mysql, performance, php, profiling, scaling