An informative email from Christian which shouldn't just sit in my inbox. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 19-Sep-2005 17:35 Subject: Re: virtual-mysql-server remote box To: Kai Hendry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello Kai On 2005-09-19 Kai Hendry wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=328554 > > How does someone provide 'virtual-mysql-server' in order to meet the > Wordpress dependency whilst the mysql server is actually on a remote > machine? Convince the package maintainer not to depend on virtual-mysql-server but rather on virtual-mysql-client and maybe only "suggest" the v-m-server? > And just out of interest. How does mysql behave across the Internet when > operated that way? Speed must be reduced. What about security? It works :-) Speed is one issue, normally unencrypted transfer another, indeed. Use stunnel similar. MySQL has build-in encryption, too, but that had to be disabled due to licence issues. bye, -christian-
