[Fwd: [webmaster] in Search of free hosting with PostgreSQL]

Robert Treat wrote:

-----Forwarded Message-----

From: Przymuszala Zsolt <primusz@enternet.hu>
To: webmaster@postgresql.org
Subject: [webmaster] in Search of free hosting with PostgreSQL
Date: 30 Mar 2005 09:45:59 +0200

Hello!

I'm from Hungary where the free webhosting servicers have only MySql.
Thats while I need an information about a hungarian (if you know) or
non-hungarian free webhosting service with postgreSQL.

Thank you in advance!

I don't know of any... does anyone else?

Robert Treat

found these 2 on first page of a google search:
http://dotgeek.org/
http://www.ambitiouslemon.com/badges.php

the search results:
http://www.google.ca/search?as_q=free+hosting+postgresql&amp;num=10&amp;hl=en&amp;btnG=Google+Search&amp;as_epq=&amp;as_oq=&amp;as_eq=&amp;lr=&amp;as_ft=i&amp;as_filetype=&amp;as_qdr=all&amp;as_occt=any&amp;as_dt=i&amp;as_sitesearch=&amp;safe=images

dot geeks home page
" The new server will *not support PostgreSQL* so please migrate your DB
to MySQL (using the mygeek area of the site) or SQLite. "
Why they would switch from Postgres to MySQL and not allow the postgres
anymore is beyond me.

Ambitious Lemon does.

"Jaqui Greenlees" <jaqui@telus.net> wrote in message
news:424D4F24.3080408@telus.net...

Robert Treat wrote:

-----Forwarded Message-----

From: Przymuszala Zsolt <primusz@enternet.hu>
To: webmaster@postgresql.org
Subject: [webmaster] in Search of free hosting with PostgreSQL
Date: 30 Mar 2005 09:45:59 +0200

Hello!

I'm from Hungary where the free webhosting servicers have only MySql.
Thats while I need an information about a hungarian (if you know) or
non-hungarian free webhosting service with postgreSQL.

Thank you in advance!

I don't know of any... does anyone else?

Robert Treat

found these 2 on first page of a google search:
http://dotgeek.org/
http://www.ambitiouslemon.com/badges.php

the search results:

http://www.google.ca/search?as_q=free+hosting+postgresql&amp;num=10&amp;hl=en&amp;btnG=Google+Search&amp;as_epq=&amp;as_oq=&amp;as_eq=&amp;lr=&amp;as_ft=i&amp;as_filetype=&amp;as_qdr=all&amp;as_occt=any&amp;as_dt=i&amp;as_sitesearch=&amp;safe=images

Sim Zacks wrote:

dot geeks home page
" The new server will *not support PostgreSQL* so please migrate your DB
to MySQL (using the mygeek area of the site) or SQLite. "
Why they would switch from Postgres to MySQL and not allow the postgres
anymore is beyond me.

maybe they feel the slight improvement in speed with mysql is worth
removing the postgrsql support.
mysql is slightly faster in most cases, but it's enterprise class uses
are usually slower. also it slows down drastically with larger db sizes.

Ambitious Lemon does.

~snip~

Le dimanche 03 avril 2005 ￜ 04:10 -0700, Jaqui Greenlees a ￜcrit :

Sim Zacks wrote:

dot geeks home page
" The new server will *not support PostgreSQL* so please migrate your DB
to MySQL (using the mygeek area of the site) or SQLite. "
Why they would switch from Postgres to MySQL and not allow the postgres
anymore is beyond me.

maybe they feel the slight improvement in speed with mysql is worth
removing the postgrsql support.
mysql is slightly faster in most cases, but it's enterprise class uses
are usually slower. also it slows down drastically with larger db sizes.

The message is dated November 18, 2004, 1:06 am... This is six month old
news.

And MySQL is faster _IF_ your site has no traffic. Once you get -> 5
concurrent accesses to the database it falls over unless you use some
very expensive tricks (time = money)

Tony

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 07:43, tony wrote:

Le dimanche 03 avril 2005 à 04:10 -0700, Jaqui Greenlees a écrit :

Sim Zacks wrote:

dot geeks home page
" The new server will *not support PostgreSQL* so please migrate your DB
to MySQL (using the mygeek area of the site) or SQLite. "
Why they would switch from Postgres to MySQL and not allow the postgres
anymore is beyond me.

maybe they feel the slight improvement in speed with mysql is worth
removing the postgrsql support.
mysql is slightly faster in most cases, but it's enterprise class uses
are usually slower. also it slows down drastically with larger db sizes.

The message is dated November 18, 2004, 1:06 am... This is six month old
news.

And MySQL is faster _IF_ your site has no traffic. Once you get -> 5
concurrent accesses to the database it falls over unless you use some
very expensive tricks (time = money)

The main reason for the switch was simple supply and demand... most
users wanted the ability to use my$ql... I'd guess that this is because
most php programmers are more familiar with my$ql and my$ql still holds
the edge on the number of third party apps that often get used on free
hosting services like these.

Robert Treat
--
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 08:38, Robert Treat wrote:

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 07:43, tony wrote:

Le dimanche 03 avril 2005 à 04:10 -0700, Jaqui Greenlees a écrit :

Sim Zacks wrote:

dot geeks home page
" The new server will *not support PostgreSQL* so please migrate your DB
to MySQL (using the mygeek area of the site) or SQLite. "
Why they would switch from Postgres to MySQL and not allow the postgres
anymore is beyond me.

maybe they feel the slight improvement in speed with mysql is worth
removing the postgrsql support.
mysql is slightly faster in most cases, but it's enterprise class uses
are usually slower. also it slows down drastically with larger db sizes.

The message is dated November 18, 2004, 1:06 am... This is six month old
news.

And MySQL is faster _IF_ your site has no traffic. Once you get -> 5
concurrent accesses to the database it falls over unless you use some
very expensive tricks (time = money)

The main reason for the switch was simple supply and demand... most
users wanted the ability to use my$ql... I'd guess that this is because
most php programmers are more familiar with my$ql and my$ql still holds
the edge on the number of third party apps that often get used on free
hosting services like these.

I'm not so sure. Have you looked through the support forums there?
there's LOTS of folks who had chosen egeek just because they support
PostgreSQL and now seem pretty dissapointed.

Cheap MySQL hosting is easy to find, cheap / free pgsql hosting isn't,
so egeek probably had a lot of pgsql fans, even if they weren't the
majority.