>>http://www.digitalrice will give you MySql for US$8 per YEAR! Could be worth stumping up the $. I don't know about your charge out - even if it's just pints - but the effort of learning about and creating a perl database seems like false economy.
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>That sounds pretty good! Don't you mean $80 per year? I might go for that, it sounds ideal.
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>Do you have to dial-up through them to FTP files?

Hi Kevin,

Just wish to give you one more host site you can look into : www.ipowerweb.com

I'm using them to build up a site and teaching myself PHP and MySQL. They offer 200MB hosting, 150 POP accounts, PHP, Perl, CGI, MySQL, FTP access (you do not dial-up through them. They are a web host, not ISP), 20Gb month transfer, etc. If you buy for a year, you can get it for $7.95/month and a free domain registration (first year).

Good luck.