Michael O'Keefe wrote:
I'm moving my business to Kearny Villa Road in the coming months, and
Cox told me they don't have cable in that location, that it belongs to
TWC. TWC tells me they don't have cable to the building coz it's cost
prohibitive.
I currently have a 1.5Mb/768kb DSL service, but I was hoping to get much
more. So now I am looking for alternatives.
Though I prefer to be able to 'touch the HW', I'm not opposed to either
co-lo somewhere or a virtual machine setup somewhere. The only problem
with that is that I routinely (at least nightly) convert our inventory
management system from a Paradox DB on Windows to mySQL on Linux so my
website is up to date (as is possible) with what we have in stock. I
also run my own Postfix and BIND.
Yes, I could ZIP/scp or rsync the DB over to the colo/Xen machine and
then do the conversion (or just ship the .sql files - 6 of 1, half-dozen
of the other)
But for arguments sake, does anyone have any data solutions suggestions?
TWC referred me to SkyRiver (in Poway I think they said) that did LoS
data. I haven't looked into them yet.
You could make your Paradox database go live with a handy little
database connector called DBTCP <http://www.fastflow.it/dbtcp>. I have a
warehouse down in Otay Mesa using this with a Paradox database backend
that runs the warehouse operations and a PHP script with the connector
running on Apache and Linux. I got the Paradox ODBC connector from
WordPerfect Office 2002. If you do that there is no need to schlep data
from Paradox to MySQL, and a reasonably designed web site won't use up
too much bandwidth.
Gus
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