Hello Schwuk, Saturday, April 12, 2003, 9:33:56 PM, you wrote: >> It does not stand up to load though. > Just to fan the fire - tell that to Slashdot... Just because you connect to http://slashdot.org does not mean that you open a connection to their backend database servers. Persistent connections!! -- Best regards, Ian mailto:ian@darksideofthemoon.org.uk