I understand completely what you are saying about why people only have ftp access and so on and so forth.

But as to your advice, "I can give you just one advice: go talk to the people that provide the webhosting", am I supposed to go around to the webhost of every single person who downloads my script and say "Pretty please give this random user a real database"?

If I was the only one using my script I would do exactly what you suggest and find a host that supports what I need for my planned functionality. But this script is going to be publically available so I'd like to make it as accessible as possible with the smallest possible requirements.

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