[Phpgroupware-developers] Scalability, Server Farms, KDE Plugins

[Stefan Heimers]

PHP might be too slow to serve thousands of concurrent users, but the 
mysql backend ist fast as lightning.

What would happen if you run three computers: One MySQL server, Two 
webservers with Phpgroupware and connect both to the same database on 
the first computer? Will there be conflicts?

And would it be OK to program KDE/Gnome/whatever plugins which connect 
directly to the database, not through phpgroupware? Problem: The plugin 
needs the database password, the user must not know it. So the plugin 
must run suid as a special user which can read a password/setup file 
unreadable by the normal user, or there must be some other middleware.

Stefan Heimers