Re: database and web servers

2002-03-21 Thread Gabriel Ricard
As long as you've got a fat pipe on both ends speed could be ok. But, then again, you never know. Some backhoe in Nebraska could cut your sweb server off from your database. Of course you'll want it to be secure as well. MySQL 4 has support for SSL. I suppose you could setup an ssh port redire

Re: database and web servers

2002-03-21 Thread Christopher Thompson
On Thursday 21 March 2002 11:28 am, Klym wrote: > Is it possible to have your web server and your MySQL server running at > different geographic locations? I'm wondering if I can run my own MySQL > server here at home on Linux and have my web site use PHP to connect to it > and extract data. Is

database and web servers

2002-03-21 Thread Klym
Is it possible to have your web server and your MySQL server running at different geographic locations? I'm wondering if I can run my own MySQL server here at home on Linux and have my web site use PHP to connect to it and extract data. Is that a bad idea for security and speed? thanks --