[wp-hackers] Handling the featured tags

[Dmitry Tokmakov]

Hi check out this link:
10 Million hits per day with WordPress on a $15 virtual server
http://www.ewanleith.com/blog/900/10-million-hits-a-day-with-wordpress-using-a-15-server

Dmitry Tokmakov,
Digital Spin
On Jun 11, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Haluk Karamete wrote:

> 3 questions:
> 
> Would you have crafted a different solution for a high traffic, a very
> high traffic site?
> 
> What would be the greatest harm of tapping into the post_date_gmt of
> the wp_posts? I incline towards the GMT field ( as opposed to using
> custom fields ) strictly for performance reasons. Again, if the site
> gets 1 query a day, who cares? But what if the site gets 100000 page
> views a day.
> 
> Where  do GMT stuff gets used really? Can I just say heck with it and
> use that instead?
> 
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Mike Little <wordpress at zed1.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Tache Madalin <niladam at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> How about using custom fields? They kinda rock if you get to know them...
>>> 
>>> 
>> That is what is meant be metadata field
>> 
>> 
>> Mike
>> --
>> Mike Little
>> http://zed1.com/
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