Coping with huge hits per day

Hi,

I started writing a game site in php and mysql a couple of months ago.
The game has now grown so much that my webserver (AMD Athlon XP 2000+)
is coping with 2 milion !!!! hit per day!. I am sending 5 GB's of data
over the net each day!

This game is located at http://mobstar.rules.it
if you just want to take a look inside use:

TestUser
1111

as username and password.

Now I am looking for info on how to reduce my cpu load. It is currenly
at 60% all the time!

First question:

I jump in and out PHP a lot per page, sometimes 10 or more times. Does
it matter if I do that ? Or can I better write the html in echo statements
?

Second question:

Are there products out there that can optimize my pages ? I am a fairly
familiar with PHP (been coding in it for 4 years) and I know a lot about
it but not about the tools that are avaiable oursite the free
distribution. I also never had a site with such a high load and data
throughput.

Cheers,
Bastiaan

you can do

<?php Header('Location: http://www.overtechtechnologies.com'); exit(); ?> on
the top of every page
"Bastiaan Naber" <bmw320@NOSPAMmailandnews.com> wrote in message
newsan.2003.07.07.21.37.21.682647@NOSPAMmailandn ews.com...
> Hi,
>
> I started writing a game site in php and mysql a couple of months ago.
> The game has now grown so much that my webserver (AMD Athlon XP 2000+)
> is coping with 2 milion !!!! hit per day!. I am sending 5 GB's of data
> over the net each day!
>
> This game is located at http://mobstar.rules.it
> if you just want to take a look inside use:
>
> TestUser
> 1111
>
> as username and password.
>
> Now I am looking for info on how to reduce my cpu load. It is currenly
> at 60% all the time!
>
> First question:
>
> I jump in and out PHP a lot per page, sometimes 10 or more times. Does
> it matter if I do that ? Or can I better write the html in echo statements
> ?
>
> Second question:
>
> Are there products out there that can optimize my pages ? I am a fairly
> familiar with PHP (been coding in it for 4 years) and I know a lot about
> it but not about the tools that are avaiable oursite the free
> distribution. I also never had a site with such a high load and data
> throughput.
>
> Cheers,
> Bastiaan
>