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Web Host Rackspace Launches Private Beta for MySQL Cloud Database

December 1, 2011 — Rackspace announced on Thursday via its blog it has introduced the MySQL Cloud Database Private Beta program. Available to US customers by invitation only, the program is aimed at customers running relational databases in the cloud that are experiencing poor and inconsistent performance as a result of the limitations of their hardware virtualization platform.

Amazon Launches Relational Database Service in EU Region

April 14, 2010 — Less than six months after its beta launch in the US, the Amazon Relational Database Service (known as Amazon RDS) is now available in Amazon’s EU – Ireland region, allowing European customers to more easily setup, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.

Table Corruption in MySQL Database

A Request Tracker (RT) enables you to keep a record of all the operations performed in MySQL database. RT creates a session by using a MySQL database, a PERL (Practical Extraction and Report Language) based main engine and front-end web and mail interfaces. However, if RT is unable to store your transactions made into the …Read More

Open Source Database Users Fear MySQL Change In Ownership

January 4, 2010 — The most popular open source database, MySQL, may be faced with the crippling effect of profit motives, according to helpmysql.org, a petition backed by Monty Program Ab (askmonty.org), founded by Michael “Monty” Widenius, the creator of MySQL.

Amazon Launches Hosted MySQL Database Service

October 27, 2009 — Amazon announced on Monday via its blog that it has launched the Amazon Relational Database Service, as part of its AWS suite of services.

Using MySQL in a Hosting Environment

MySQL is a heavy-duty database server.Visit at http://free-websitemaking.blogspot.comn Used with various software languages, most notably PHP, and part of the LAMP family (which is comprised of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP),nWhether it’s a customer relations management list or medical records, any data you have that needs storing, is stored on a database. You will need a …Read More

PHP PDO MySQL:Simple Example Connecting to MySQL with PDO Class

I’ll demonstrate a simple example on how to connect to mysql using PHP’s PDO class. Just some of the benefits of PDO is that it’s fast and if you use the PDO::prepare() method it will prevent SQL injection attacks by calling the PDO::quote() method. The other pros is that there are several databases it will …Read More

PHP Flaw Enables Password Theft

December 20, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to a report by research and analysis firm Netcraft (netcraft.com), a published vulnerability shows how to use newly discovered security holes in PHP, an open source server side scripting language, to steal database passwords from the phpBB bulletin board program. The flaw was published on the BugTraq mailing list and several other Web sites, the report said.

Online Community Picks Zeus Technology

December 20, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Zeus Technology (zeus.com), a provider of Internet infrastructure solutions, announced on Monday that its technology would power takingitglobal.org, a youth-led online community. The site was launched in 2000 and has seen its traffic double several times each year, with daily traffic now exceeding one million hits.

Update on Omnis MySQL Crash

December 8, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The MySQL server crash that took place over the weekend at Omnis Networks did not bring down the California-based Web host’s entire network as originally reported by the Web Host Industry Review.