We have a server just for SQL. Do you mean a secondary 'slave' server to that? I don't know how that works. Or how MySQL would use it.
Wouldn't doing a SELECT COUNT() be quicker than a SELECT USER. And ordering it by the user name would definitely put extra load on the SQL server since it would have to create a temporary table, wouldn't it?
Ok, it's now 5pm and we have nearly 7,000 members having visted today. It's too many to put on the home page.
A separate page would be very useful, though.
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