Aussiecom - Your Web Site / Database Integration and Hosting Specialists

Aussiecom has done thorough research into the options available for creating and hosting database enabled web sites and have chosen what we believe are the highest performance, most secure, most robust applications available.

Our database enabled web sites can easily handle over 25,000 hits per day, and databases containing millions of records can be accessed at lightning speeds.

The software chosen includes PHP (for the database integration/access programming), MySQL (the database engine), and Apache web server. Our servers are Sun Ultra's, running Unix, connected to the internet via a T3 (45Mbps) connection. We have system administrators on stand-by 24 hours a day, and all servers have backup batteries, power generators, and we do daily backups of all servers.

If you are interested in having a high speed, secure, robust database integrated web site with minimum down-time, you cannot afford to go past Aussiecom Internet Consulting.


Web-Database integration and scripting language - PHP

PHP is a server side scripting language that is embedded in web pages. It is most commonly used for database integration, and MySQL databases in particular. The number of web sites using the PHP language has increased from under 100,000 in June 1998 to over 2,700,000 domains running php (in June 2000).

Source: Netcraft (www.netcraft.com)

Database Server - MySQL

MySQL is a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server.

MySQL was originally developed to handle very large databases an order of magnitude faster than any database vendor could offer. The producers of MySQL have now been using it since 1996 in an environment with more than 40 databases containing 10,000 tables, of which more than 500 have more than 7 million rows. This is about 100 gigabytes of mission-critical data.

'Most Used Database over the Internet' - "Linux Journal" (Jan, 1999)
'Best affordable database' - CNET Builder.com product awards (Dec, 1998)
'DB of the year' (for MySQL, together with PHP) - Web techniques / Web review at WEB 98

Web Server - Apache

Source: Netcraft (www.netcraft.com) - May 1999 (5,414,325 sites surveyed).

"This month sees Apache go past the 3 million sites mark. The widespread deployment of Apache amongst hosting companies and ISPs ensures that Apache is in a better position to echo the growth of the web than any other server, and this has been a longterm theme of the Web Server survey." - Netcraft (May 1999 survey of over 5 million sites)

"Apache remains the king of Web servers .. Apache's overall security, performance, and robustness are unquestionable -- many of the most accessed sites in the world run Apache or Apache derivatives." - Serverwatch 1999 Hall of Fame

"With sites like Yahoo running Apache, its scalability is unquestionable…the Apache fan club can only get bigger." - NewMedia Magazine 1998 Hyper Award

"A robust, stable, extremely inexpensive, and constantly upgraded product that dominated the web server market a year after its introduction and which continues that domination to this day." - Network Magazine 1998 Product of the year