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Originally Posted by jwade_m
The programmer said that the website and the database must be with the same company. Is this true?
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No, that's not true. It makes very little sense to have the database and the website on different hosts in your case, but it can be easily done.
in the following code (which he will have used in his php to connect to the mysql database)
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$db = mysql_connect("localhost","username","password");
all he has to do is replace "localhost" with the address of the database. It's that simple. Ok, i've never tried it, but it SHOULD be that simple.
My hosting service is with
http://www.exitblue.com/ It's perfect for what i want, quite cheap, all the bells and whistles come pre-installed and setup for you and the clincher is that the support is top-notch.