Re: ISP Hosted database

Vic,

You need a proxy server script running on your ISP which takes posted or
otherwise provided data from users and does with it what a direct
connect would do.   From your description, I don't entirely understand
how it's done, but it seems that you have some kind of client which goes
to the database directly.

What you want is users to use a browser to get to one place on  your Web
site, and that place then provides the information they key
in/upload/sync to the database, mediated by some scripts.

 - Jan


On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:11:12 -0700, "Vic Spainhower"
<[email protected]> said:
> Hello,
>
> I don't know if this is a proper question for this list but I do know
> there are some very knowledgable people here who will be able to send
> me in the right direction or inform me that I'm off base.
>
> I've built a web site for receiving entries for shows (type of show
> doesn't matter could be horse, dog, cat, car etc.) . These show
> entries are stored in a MySQL database. When an entry is received the
> information is not only captured in the MySQL database but it is also
> emailed to the Show Secretary. The Show Secretary has an Access
> Database that can connect to the web site and pick up these entries
> which are then copied to the Access database. That's the 30,000 foot
> picture of what's going on.
>
> Now here's my problem. This site is hosted at an ISP in a shared
> environment because I cannot afford to have a dedicated server until
> this thing can get going (if it ever does). The ISP requires that each
> user's IP address be white listed and the problem being is that many
> (if not most) of the users are on dial-up so the IP address is not
> static. So in short it doesn't work for them.
>
> I'm told that to eliminate the white listing requirement would mean
> turning off the fire wall which would open a real can of worns. If
> this is in fact true I cannot imagine any ISP not making white listing
> IP addresses mandatory for remote connections.  On the other hand
> there must be a way to secure the environment and not have to use the
> IP address. I like the way it currently works because it is a seamless
> connection to the remote database making it very easy to use which I
> really need as most of the users are not computer savy.
>
> Can anyone offer ideas on either an ISP that does not require white
> listing IP addresses in a shared environment or possibly another
> approch to accomplishing the same thing?
>
> Thanks very much!
>
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> Vic
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