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Our Troublesome servers
16 Jun 26

Database Limit Walls: Concurrent Sites

Disclosure: figures below come from documented host support pages and MySQL's own defaults, not our own load-testing rig — where we couldn't find a host's published number, we say so instead of guessing. “How many concurrent connections can my database handle?” only matters once you're running more than one site…
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Apollo 15: Follow the Tracks
16 Jun 26

Slow Query Log Access Per Host

A slow query is invisible until you can see it. Most shared and even managed hosting plans hide the one tool that actually tells you which queries are dragging your database down: the slow query log. We tested access to it across common hosting tiers to see who actually lets…
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Network Storage Server: VIA NSD7800 (front view)
16 Jun 26

phpMyAdmin Performance Per Host

Disclosure: this is an access-and-workflow comparison, not a raw speed benchmark — “performance” here means how much friction is between you and running a query, which varies more by access model than by server hardware. phpMyAdmin itself performs about the same everywhere — it's a PHP application rendering table data,…
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16 Jun 26

Database Region Latency Tests

Database latency is one of the most overlooked variables in “why is my site slow in this country” complaints. Server region gets picked for the web server, but the database region — especially with managed database add-ons and multi-region CDNs — doesn't always get the same attention. We ran region-to-region…
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