Sunday, November 18, 2007
13:42 by FoxTwo
I think my recent stumblings through "techie" websites might help you. I found a new one today which may help all of you. Yeah, the company can block "social" and "useless" sites, but making tech sites available to people like me, tech staff, is like opening a goldmine. If they didn't block those social and useless sites I may never have been forced to surf tech sites, cuz I'd be too busy throwing sheep at people on Facebook hahah!
This website, called Database4Free, provides you with a free database! Yes!! Sign up with them, create your database, and then go back to your current webhost and point your Wordpress (or whatever application that needs the database) to this new account! It'll work like it did before, except with some slight slowdowns. Afterall, that's to be expected - the database isn't running on the same server anymore, it has to do URL lookups and queries and these requests take time.
FYI, the database they use is MySQL (what other database is "free" on the Internet?). If you're a tech guru (*ahem*), you can even download MySQL off the MySQL website and install it to your webhost if you know how. Incidentally, Facebook is powered by MySQL too :)
Generally though, you shouldn't be able to "feel" the difference. The "lag-time" is in terms of seconds, so if it takes 1 or 2 seconds longer to load your webpage I doubt your visitors would notice. They'd probably attribute it to their sucky "stuckhub" or "sin-tel" connections :)
13:42 by FoxTwo
Free Database(s) For Your Website
I think my recent stumblings through "techie" websites might help you. I found a new one today which may help all of you. Yeah, the company can block "social" and "useless" sites, but making tech sites available to people like me, tech staff, is like opening a goldmine. If they didn't block those social and useless sites I may never have been forced to surf tech sites, cuz I'd be too busy throwing sheep at people on Facebook hahah!
This website, called Database4Free, provides you with a free database! Yes!! Sign up with them, create your database, and then go back to your current webhost and point your Wordpress (or whatever application that needs the database) to this new account! It'll work like it did before, except with some slight slowdowns. Afterall, that's to be expected - the database isn't running on the same server anymore, it has to do URL lookups and queries and these requests take time.
FYI, the database they use is MySQL (what other database is "free" on the Internet?). If you're a tech guru (*ahem*), you can even download MySQL off the MySQL website and install it to your webhost if you know how. Incidentally, Facebook is powered by MySQL too :)
Generally though, you shouldn't be able to "feel" the difference. The "lag-time" is in terms of seconds, so if it takes 1 or 2 seconds longer to load your webpage I doubt your visitors would notice. They'd probably attribute it to their sucky "stuckhub" or "sin-tel" connections :)
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