MySQL Performance on VPS

Question

I am building a Mobile App which uses a backend server to store the data. If I describe it in terms of Relational DB then it is ~10K records (2 or 3 tables). Planning to use Linode VPS to host it (512 MB). I know the question is very broad, but want to get an idea about the performance under load.

Another choice is to use a NoSQL like Redis, but for that need to put up some time to learn.

I already did searching on SO, but no satisfactory answers yet.

PS: This is a side project and i expect to learn the things along the way. But some good pointers would help to speed up the process.

Answer 1

it appears that you'll have to work on optimizing queries more than looking for some quick fix. I have been working with plenty of projects running on virtual servers with no performance issues if you write the queries in correct manner. Have a read: http://owaisahussain.blogspot.com/2012/06/yet-another-blog-on-query-optimization.html

Answer 2

Disable InnoDB, that will save you lots of RAM. To do this, have skip-innodb in your my.cnf file.