If security is that big of a concern for you then you probably need to
consider not just the db, but any other source of access to the server
hackers might have, including but not limited to, cgi scripts etc in other
user directories that could be exploitable.
And so when security is that important, you likely want your own server,
whether local or co-located, only then can you control all the aspects of
the server that could lead to a breach.
Terry Fielder
Manager Software Development and Deployment
Great Gulf Homes / Ashton Woods Homes
terry@greatgulfhomes.com
Fax: (416) 441-9085
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Robert Treat
> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 12:16 PM
> To: Bret Busby
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Is my MySQL Gaining ?
>
>
> On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 05:40, Bret Busby wrote:
> > I would feel more confident about having a personal
> database "on the
> > Internet"; a backend to my web site, if I knew that the
> database wasn't
> > thrown into the same storage area as everyone of the ISP's
> other account
> > holders, who also have the same DBMS database backends to their web
> > sites.
> <snip>
> > I am not sure whether it can all be done with symbolic
> links, to place
> > PostgreSQL databases where a (OS, not DBMS) user or
> developer or DBA
> > wants them to be stored, but I suggest that provision
> should exist for a
> > person to determine where the person's (as owner of the database)
> > database file(s) exist, for security, backing up, etc.
> >
>
> Find an ISP that will allow you to install a local copy of postgresql
> for only your user account, then you will have full control
> from top to
> bottom.
>
> Robert Treat
> --
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