> Decent size. All my databases have been tiddlers. But this will be
> down to the speed of the database, not the web server or the scripting
> language. Can anyone vouch for MySQL under these circumstances?

This all depends on how you tune the database, which in turn depends on what
you intend to do with it.  For any database with a total of 60000 rows, you
should be able to set MySQL up to do screamingly fast searches.  If you're
doing hideously complex joins and don't allocate enough RAM to the various
buffers, well, then that's another story.

One of the tables in one of the non-critical databases in IOL just broke the
36 million row mark last night.  Simple lookups are still reasonably fast.

Nick