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Originally Posted by gstelmack
If there were some folks interested, we could look into pooling funds and getting a VPS account that a few leagues share, where we have more control over things like remote access to databases. I've just recently opened an account with LiquidWeb (who in just a few days seems to live up to their reputation for good support), and their VPS runs about $60/month and we can set up remote access to the MySQL databases. Not sure how much interest there is in that, though.
I will also say that this issue has me considering an update to DBUpdater where you put two PHP files on your server, and DBUpdater reads one to get some information on the current state of the database, FTPs some files to your host, then launches the second page to do the updating, so it's still one-click, although likely to take a bit longer to run.
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Would the $60/Month cover multiple sites or would each league need to contribute $60? If the site could handle the traffic, I would think that if 15 leagues paid $4/month, it would be more cost effective than paying a host 5x that amount. But I don't know about the capacity of the site you are talking about.
As for the DbUpdater, would this work on a 1and1 site? I'd really like to utilize more of your (gstelmack) data and get player cards going in the NAFL. But due to our site limitations as noted in my prior post we can't do that. I actually have to individually FTP files in csv format and I had to split the years up because the tables grew too much in size for it to handle.