And everyone knows no ISP or hosting provider ever sets any sort of arbitrary resource limits on anything . . . (sorry, didn't mean to drip that much sarcasm all over there)

Hosting companies are contracting to provide a certain service. In order to do so they have to budget X worth of cpu/disk/network bandwidth/sysadmin overhead for each customer. While MySQL in and of itself on a dedicated machine serving a single customer may be perfectly capable of handling much larger databases, caveat emptor if a hosting company's offering that level of service on a shared hosting platform.

When things slow to a crawl or run out of space because they've oversubscribed their infrastructure you'll wish you'd gone with a more clued hosting company that either charged you more (because they're spending more on beefier hardware with fewer customers per each) or with a dedicated server that you're not sharing with everyone else and their dog's multi-gigabyte databases.

We're looking for a Perl and Database Developer for Corporate Investments Group.

In reply to Re^2: Virtual/distributed database with DBI by Fletch
in thread Virtual/distributed database with DBI by dsheroh

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