> They want a superfast site, with lots of quicktime files (stored in MySQL) > that's easily updateable by non techs. If you want it superfast, you'd better not store the files in mysql, but directly in the filesytem. Imho, it's allways better to store big files in the filesytem, and having a reference to them in a mysql db (filename, path, etc...) Just my $0.02 Philippe