>>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.
last time I checked it was $8 <-- you risk getting what you pay for I guess, can't be worse that freeola!
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>Do you have to dial-up through them to FTP files?
Do hosts try that on? What happens when you want to outsource development?
anyway, digitalrice don't offer dialup, just hosting. I use smartftp which is awesome.

Sarah

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