Summary: Which alternative would "save" the server? I want to be able to store a large array in a session (name, email, cpf, city etc) or always make a query in the database (mysql) when I need an information (considering that every second of hundreds of queries would be performed)?
I never had to worry about this kind of thing, but now I have a client that has a site with more than a thousand simultaneous accesses and the server is very bad (I have already suggested changes, new servers / services and everything was barred ), is always falling. So I'm worried about a system I'm developing. Basically, this system deals with user registration and query of users in the database. As the server is already bad, I do not know which alternative (session or queries to db) would be the "less worse".
On the duplicate: no answer of the question was conclusive and the author also did not speak about anything.