Re: Is my MySQL Gaining ?

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 05:40, Bret Busby wrote:
> I would feel more confident about having a personal database "on the
> Internet"; a backend to my web site, if I knew that the database wasn't
> thrown into the same storage area as everyone of the ISP's other account
> holders, who also have the same DBMS database backends to their web
> sites.
<snip>
> I am not sure whether it can all be done with symbolic links, to place
> PostgreSQL databases where a (OS, not DBMS) user or developer or DBA
> wants them to be stored, but I suggest that provision should exist for a
> person to determine where the person's (as owner of the database)
> database file(s) exist, for security, backing up, etc.
>

Find an ISP that will allow you to install a local copy of postgresql
for only your user account, then you will have full control from top to
bottom.

Robert Treat
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