How many MySql queries/second can be handled by a server?

Question

I\'ve started developing a browser (database) game. My question is how many queries can a regular hosting handle (when I mean regular, I mean a shared hosting you cand find

Answer 1

Many factors can influence the response time of a database. Hardware, application configuration, (mysql out of the box does not perform all that well), and last but not least, your coding!

Badly written queries can bring make an app feel slow and sluggish. Using count(*) in your code, for a very trivial example, or having no indexes on the database, for example, will influence your db response time as your dataset grows.