Webot Graphics wrote:
1) If I plan to use 1and1.com for hosting, do they offer an encrypted db?
2) can you make up some custom code
example ---
real card
1234 5678 9012 3456
could be stored as
5678 1234 3456 9012
3) The pdf says you can't store the vcode anywhere, but how do you
keep it long enough for accounting to process it?
4) We had 1.22 million dollars in sales last year, so we fit the
"millions of dollars per year" category, and though we still act like
a small business (see website), we are reaching a point at which
security could become a real threat.
Justin Giboney
MySQL can do all the things you need, but since another member gave
details on this, I'll move on.
I, like some of the others here, have used 1and1 for a few years. I was
part of their initial launch - they offered a 3 year plan for free, just
to get the word out that they were there. Even though it was a free
shared hosting plan, I suffered almost no down time. Their tech support
was great, and probably still would be if I hadn't learned as much as I
have. Now when I ask them a question, I'm surprised at their responses
- e.g.: recently one of them told me I needed to point my domain to a
certain name server of theirs. After a confused moment ("huh? Domains
don't point at name servers... it's the other way around..."), I
realized they meant that I had to make their name server the
authoritative one (their default, of course, which I had changed). They
offer much for the price, and as others mentioned, they have a very
easy-to-use administrative control panel. A couple other positives:
* 2 gigs of email address space per email address that delivers to
their server.
* Hundreds of email addresses.
* Gigs of web space and bandwidth.
They have a few significant weak points that pushed me toward my desire
to migrate from them and start my own hosting service:
* They *still* have no plans to migrate from MySQL 4. MySQL 5 has
been out for a few years now.
* They run PHP 4 and PHP 5. They default to 4, though you can change
this with .htaccess. However, in order to run PHP 4 and 5 together, you
have to run them as a CGI (hear the groans come from the group on that
one...)
* In order to use MySQL, you have to create the database in their
control panel, and they do not sit on the same host. I have a few set
up, and none of them use the same host as another. This means if you
want database meta info, you have to use the same database - e.g.:
phpMyAdmin tables in the same db as my Addressbook.
They now have VPS plans. I have not tested these, and I probably wont
because I can get one for nearly the same cost as a Verio reseller.
Just another $.02 .
Brandon Stout
http://mscis.org
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