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in thread SQLite + free web hosting?

Hi Ikegami, thanks for your post.

Well... I should have expressed myself more clearly - my apologies.

Being more specific, what I do want is to be able to download my database and play with it anywhere (even in a smartphone, for example), or just back it up whenever I need - simple and quick. And what I do not want is to recreate everything in case I have to move to another server - I've heard free web hosting services are kind of... volatile, should I say? I'm not sure I can do that with MySQL (you're right, I have no experience with MySQL at all). Besides all that, I've been doing some work in SQLite, and I just love it.

Now, about installing the module myself - looks like I've made a naive question, but I need to make another one: do they allow users to install Perl modules? Aren't there any security issues?

Thanks again,

VMat

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Re^3: SQLite + free web hosting?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 12, 2009 at 19:54 UTC

    do they allow users to install Perl modules?

    I doubt they disabled the C compiler. And even if they did, you could compile the module on a similar machine and just upload the binaries.

    Aren't there any security issues?

    They already allow you to run arbitrary programs, so I'm not sure what you have in mind.

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      They already allow you to run arbitrary programs, so I'm not sure what you have in mind.


      I really have no experience with web servers, so I may be talking nonsense, but if I owned one, I believe I would give no permissions for outsiders to write in any directories under perl's. Isn't that the case?

      Thanks,

      VMat
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        Noone said anything about writing in the directories under perl's. Perl modules can be installed in any directory.
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