Originally Posted by GMMorris Just out of interest - how powerful is your server? It would probably need some big guns for that amout of processing, no?

Dell 1850 Series Server
Dual 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon Processors (800 mhz FSB, 1 MB Cache)
73 GB 10,000 RPM SCSI Hard Drive
2 GB Registered ECC DDR SDRAM

It is powerful, but definitely not as high end as it could be.

Originally Posted by Aphex Your site is using a dedicated server though, correct? Most sites are using MySQL for small personal sites on virtual or shared servers. So, MySQL isn't going to seem all that fast at times.

Yes.

Also, I just checked and we are averaging 1,341.46 queries per minute now and our average load throughout the day has been 0.04. The average for the queries is being calculated since Sep 29, 2005 at 07:49 PM.