Why Can’t Any Web Host Do MySQL Reliably?
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Despite my best efforts to have current backups of my MySQL databases, I’m going through some data loss hell thanks to the ineptitude of my Web host.
Why is it so many people have problems with MySQL hosting and data loss? It seems like it plagues every single Web Host and everyone who has Web sites experiences this nightmare at least once.
Even with dedicated servers and dedicated databases these types of data loss problems or database corruption can still happen and it seems like it comes down to it being a finicky technology that is simply unreliable/problematic. So why does every Web site rely so heavily on MySQL? There should be something better!
The more I think about it, I guess we could ask the same thing about Microsoft Windows. At least there is Apple Mac OS X, in that case.
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Gerold Manders
October 19th, 2007
at 6:47pm
Rely on PHPMyadmin for database dumping www.phpmyadmin.net).
Accept no web-based substitute/alternative! Any decent ISP has PHPmyadmin in their portfolio.
Not one (self-induced) problem since I started dumping my databases with it 5 years ago.
And if that fails there is always PostGres www.postgresql.org). More powerful (as in more upscale functionality) but not widely supported in the land of ISP’s yet.