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Old 01-22-2003, 04:59 PM  
NetRodent
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Originally posted by wwwcashmountain

We don't use mysql for realtime authentication tho, i dont know how the load would go when you have big numbers of members.
If you authenticate against a properly indexed db, you'll have much lower load than with plain text. Especially for large numbers of members. Just make sure that you're very careful about doing operations on that table that might block.
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