Originally Posted by Salathe

Absurd, MySQL is more than capable of being used for large sites! It certainly shouldn't be choking with only a million rows. drewbee, is it specifically that figure that causes the problems or is there a degradation as the number of rows increases?

There's not really much information to go on in your first post.

P.S. Take a looksee at some of the MySQL customers. Some pretty huge clients and websites there.