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magicdanw
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I'm having some difficulty with a free hosting provider that I'm hosting a few websites on. One of the websites occasionally gives an error that it cannot connect to the MySQL database, and takes up to about ten minutes to start working again. I contacted the hosting provider, and they said that they restart all their MySQL databased every hour to "improve performance." Now, this sounds ridiculous. I don't know much about MySQL databases, but I would imagine they don't need to be restarted every hour. Could someone more knowledgeable let me know if this is true? Also, could anyone recommend a better free host for this site? I need one that doesn't insert advertising, allows me to point a domain name at it, and gives PHP, MySQL, and reasonable space and bandwidth. And, of course, doesn't restart its services every hour  |
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Galandros
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That's odd.
One php without adds:
http://www.awardspace.com/
other useful but some php doesn' work properly (maybe the php version is outdated)
http://www.phpnet.us/
has adds.
The rest you have to see. Oh, both are free. |
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magicdanw
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| I forgot one important thing - my website makes use of sendmail(), which most free servers disable to prevent spamming. The host I currently use is an exception. Does anyone know of a free server that does allow sendmail() to be used? If not, maybe I'll just move my database to another server, and keep the php site at the current server. I think that should work, right? |
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benryves
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Several cheap hosts don't allow any external access to the database (forcing you to use the atrocious phpMyAdmin). I'd chalk it up as "unlikely". Could you not just pay for hosting?  |
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pugboy
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I suggest you just pay for hosting, but here are a few alternatives:
http://freehostia.com (I am pretty sure Send Mail is enabled)
http://byethost.com/ (Sendmail is enabled as well as Curl. They also have a free reseller package if you are interested...)
And no, the database server being restarted every hour for performance reasons is complete bogus.
If you want to make it easy on yourself, you can use this external MySQL database service:
http://www.freemysql.net/v2/
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AlienCC
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Joined: 24 May 2003
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pugboy wrote: And no, the database server being restarted every hour for performance reasons is complete bogus.
Yep, we only restart the database server here about as often as we reboot the entire actual server.
Database performance issues can be fixed by adjusting some settings, adding memory, most importantly properly indexing tables, and optimizing slower queries. |
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magicdanw
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| Posted: 22 Feb 2009 03:05:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks, Pugboy. I transferred my database to freemysql.net, and it seems to be working well enough. |
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