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On a very limited environment (slow CPU, little RAM, but a lot of disk space), what would be the advantages of using different storage engine than MyISAM assuming an optimized php script (w/ using cache) daily performs a lot of read queries (SELECT) and almost no writes (m/b 5% - UPDATE queries)?

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At what point does MySQL INNODB fine tuning become a requirement?

This was addressed in a post I made a while back

In the post I reference other tuning articles

Please read this in its entirety

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